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Are you sure thats how evenly distributed hash algorithms work? change one letter of your string, or just make it longer or shorter - none of your green fields

• thewakalix 5y ago
  Nothing about this algorithm relies on similar words producing similar hashes. If the word “foobar” has a 0 in the first digit of its hash, and you see a green 1 in the first digit in Passwordle, then you know that the answer can’t be foobar.
• mlyle 5y ago
  > Are you sure thats how evenly distributed hash algorithms work? change one letter of your string, or just make it longer or shorter - none of your green fields will stay. True. But still, I know the vast majority of words in my dictionary don't match those two green fields after hashing, and can be eliminated from further consideration as the password.
  • lazide 5y ago
    The password is not a dictionary word, it’s randomly generated though?
    • mlyle 5y ago
      Yes, it's a randomly generated string with ~90 bits of entropy. After one guess, I know many fewer of those values could work. Unfortunately, the best known way to test this is to enumerate all of them. 14 character random strings are out of reach; 11 character strings you can enumerate & test them all with a lot of computing.