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Re:Security Update by erpellan on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:45AM (#19937908)
Onion hash: hash the existing hash with the new algorithm.
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Re:Security Update by hopscotch on Friday May 17, 2019 @06:08AM (#19938029)
That throws away entropy, but I suppose so long as very few hash collisions of a password are likely to be real passwords themselves it would be harmless.
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