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Most of them will be known already. It's mostly just a matter of comparing hashes or at worst converting plaintext SHA-1 (which is designed to be very fast). A

Most of them will be known already. It's mostly just a matter of comparing hashes or at worst converting plaintext SHA-1 (which is designed to be very fast). And crackers will share unknown hashes to be cracked. So they can crowd source cracking far more effectively than the security community can.

jacquesm 9y ago
That suggests the security community is less organized and has fewer resources than the crackers.
- zbentley 9y ago
  > That suggests the security community is less organized and has fewer resources than the crackers. That suggestion likely reflects reality.