Re:Tips for Better Signup / Login UX
by mtoddsmith on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:25AM
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Wouldn't that interfere with a password manager that auto-saves?
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Re:Tips for Better Signup / Login UX
by shawabawa3 on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:45AM
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no
basically the hashing algorithm they use strips out certain information, which means that e.g.
"PaSSWord123" "pAsswORD123" "PaSSWord123 " etc
all hash to the same value, and so are equivalent.
>> "PaSSWord123" "pAsswORD123"
Wow - non-case-sensitive passwords seem like a bad idea...
Re:Tips for Better Signup / Login UX
by CJefferson on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:29PM
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Not it's still case sensitive, you can just flip all the character's case. You are only losing "one bit" of password information.
Re:Tips for Better Signup / Login UX
by cratermoon on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:35PM
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> it's still case sensitive, you can just flip all the character's case.
How is "flipping all the character's case" different from case-insensitive?
Re:Tips for Better Signup / Login UX
by CJefferson on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:21PM
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They flip all character's case in one go, and also capitalise just the first character.
So, if your password was:
fishCAT
They would accept fishCAT, and also FISHcat and FishCAT, and that's it.
Pretty sure they don't do that for authentication.
Re:Tips for Better Signup / Login UX
by CJefferson on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:30PM
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They do, you can see a discussion here: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/68013/facebook-...