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Comment by w8rbt

I hope that the SHA1 hashes remain freely available for download. I use them to build a bloom filter for password vetting.

We should all do away with password complexity rules (except minimum length) and simply test a large, comprehensive exposed password bloom filter for membership. It's very fast (constant time) and efficient and if the test returns no, then it's safe for a user to select that password.

Here's the code: https://github.com/w8rbt/bp

Also note that this approach satisfies the updated (June 2017) NIST 800-63-3B password vetting guidelines.

parent w8rbt 7 years ago

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