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300M Freely Downloadable Pwned Passwords
md5sum is going to limit your generated passwords to 128-bits because you're limited to 32 hexadecimal digits, which are each represented by 4 bits. [a-z][A-Z][0-9] can be represented by ~6 bits, so 32 characters would allow for 190 bits of entropy.
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