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I suspect you can significantly cut down the space by limiting it to valid JPEG files.


You can cut it down but it still won't be feasible. Consider generating even just all possible 100x100 1-bit monochrome images. There will be 100 * 100 = 10000 bits per image, giving a total of 2^10000 possible images: about 1.995 * 10^3010 which is still way, way bigger than 10^80.

A 5MB JPEG image would have a much larger resolution and color pallete then this.


A 5MB JPEG corresponds to 12~16MP@24bpp, although many of the images would compress to the same result.




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