That's a good point. I'm pretty sure my bank is storing the password because they also limit it to some (small) number of characters. I'm guessing it's because the web interface is just passing it on to some ancient back-end system.
> I'm pretty sure my bank is storing the password because they also limit it to some (small) number of characters.
I love how it's always the banks with these ridiculous password practices. I'm really glad that it's not some site where the password is protecting important information.
That reduces password entropy and makes the hashes easier to crack.
Re:Let them paste passwords
by stanmancan on Thursday May 18, 2017 @02:04PM
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I didn't say it's a good idea, it's awful, just pointing it out though.
Well, does it? Even if you crack it you don't have the correct casing. So you don't have the original password. Of course doesn't help if every other website converts to lower case too.
But if you use bcrypt you can partially compensate by using a higher work factor.
> Well, does it? Even if you crack it you don't have the correct casing.
The 'correct casing' is any member of the set of all permutations of cases. So you both do, don't, and do not care.
I believe I read that Facebook stores a few commonly mistyped versions of everyone's password. Actual password, typed as if caps lock was on, things like that.