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A 2020 MacBook Air can hash every North American phone number in four hours (matthodges.com)
13 points by m-hodges 60 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Interesting read, is there a method that protects privacy? I think as you mentioned, changing the hashing algorithm won't fix the issue.


Private set intersection¹ is an active area of research among homomorphic encryption.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_set_intersection




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