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Re:Project Euler Humble Return by h0w412d on Friday August 07, 2015 @07:28PM (#10025611)
BCrypt has a character limit of 72.
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Re:Project Euler Humble Return by Freaky on Friday August 07, 2015 @07:47PM (#10025695)
Hard limit of 72, beyond which many implementations will silently truncate, and reduced entropy from each character beyond 55 bytes.

Probably a good idea to pre-hash. Or use scrypt.

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