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I Wanna Go Fast: Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick

Troy Hunt

In the immortal words of Ricky Bobby, I wanna go fast. When I launched Pwned Passwords V2 last week , I made it fast - real fast - and I want to talk briefly here about why that was important, how I did it and then how I've since shaved another 56% off the load time for requests that hit the origin.