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Comment by notpushkin

1 day ago

There’s also a way simpler way: send a hash prefix to server, get a list of matches. Google Safe Browsing does this with URLs, for example.

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chuckadams  1 day ago

haveibeenpwned.com does this for passwords too. I doubt you could make it work for all the smaller words though, let alone offer corrections.

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