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July 08, 2023, 08:30:24 AM
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There was an individual who managed to brute force 4 words using custom code and renting cloud computing. It cost him $350 and took 30 hours. To scale that up to 5 words, it would cost >$700,000 and take 7 years. And this is of course assuming you are 100% certain about the other 7 words, including their order and position.

So in short, it's almost certainly not worth your time to try to brute force 5 words.
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