I found myself in a situation where I had to hash a bunch of data to look for the presence of those hashes in another dataset. I knew what the universe of possible tokens was, and it was relatively small, so it wasn’t necessarily a password cracking exercise, though it was akin to one. I didn’t have a password cracking utility like hashcat or John the Ripper within arms reach, and since I didn’t need to chew through hundreds of millions of possible combinations, I went ahead and loaded up the data in Pandas.
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