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droffel | 3 years ago

The dataset for hashed credit card numbers is small enough that it can be easily represented in a static lookup table, or brute forced.

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giaour|3 years ago

Brute forced by a human voice on a phone call? You must talk quickly.

NavinF|3 years ago

He almost certainly meant that sha256(card number) can be bruteforced to figure out what card number was hashed. 10^12*256 bits is only 29 TiB.

So providing a hashed card number to a potential scammer is just as bad as providing the card number.