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Re:Dropbox prompts password resets by sirius87 on Friday August 26, 2016 @12:46AM (#12364283)
And hash twice again during login/password lookup then? Can be done, but tedious.
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Re:Dropbox prompts password resets by mrswag on Friday August 26, 2016 @05:48AM (#12365217)
Yes, but it happens only the first time, if you update the stored hash with newHash(plaintext_password)
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Re:Dropbox prompts password resets by bdcravens on Friday August 26, 2016 @02:43AM (#12364642)
Sure, not ideal, but would prevent mass password updates.
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