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		uselessuseof on June 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked obligatory comments - not portable - useless use of backticks printf password\|openssl sha1\|cut -c6-40\|grep -f - hacked.txt

spal on June 7, 2012 [–]

Why are you extracting 35 characters with 'cut -c6-40'? SHA1 produces a 160-bit message digest. That's 20 bytes or 40 hex-digits.

uselessuseof on June 7, 2012 | [–]

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