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Re:Digital Identity Guidelines: Public Comment Period by eximius on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:28PM (#13860082)
No it doesn't, case insensitive passwords have nearly half of the entropy. It's less bad than plaintext password storage but only barely.
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Re:Digital Identity Guidelines: Public Comment Period by iopq on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:55PM (#13863314)
Most passwords don't have capital letters unless forced by stupid password rules. This only makes it so accidental capital letters don't prevent you from logging in.
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