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Re:Horcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids by awqrre on Monday June 19, 2017 @10:08PM (#14591742)
they should fix the underlying problem but in the meantime, they probably could just automatically truncate to 4 chars when 6 can't be used?
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Re:Horcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids by Schwolop on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @06:20AM (#14593370)
No, because certain combinations, e.g. 1111 are prohibited in four digit codes but wouldn't be at the start of six digit codes.
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