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Re:The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security by pps43 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @01:36PM (#17961728)
They could still hash the long password, without trimming, and store 64 bits of that hash.
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Re:The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security by jedberg on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:40PM (#17962214)
True, but then you'd have to make sure that all software that accesses that field is aware of the hash, and chances are if you have a legacy system like that, you have legacy software too.
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