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Re:Counting the number of matching characters in two ASCII s... by joawowiij on Friday May 21, 2021 @12:59PM (#27236676)
hex, base64 encoded strings, etc
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Re:Counting the number of matching characters in two ASCII s... by tyingq on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:07PM (#27236781)
That makes sense for "same/not-same" comparisons to me. I don't know why you would want counts of different characters though.
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Re:Counting the number of matching characters in two ASCII s... by bombcar on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:01PM (#27237574)
"Password must be different by at least 6 characters" perhaps, though that's the inverse, really.

Fuzzy matching is another aspect that comes to mind.

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