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Originally Posted by woj
How many pics of faces do you have in the database? isn't that obviously a finite number? and so it actually makes it MUCH easier to crack than infinite number of combinations that can be generated using random letters, their positions, angles, etc?
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There are 28 letters in the alphabet. There are 5 billion faces. So faces are roughly 179,000,000 times harder to crack.
The faces are randomly rotated and cropped, so just as one letter can be many images, so too can one face. There are just a LOT more faces to choose from than there are letters.
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