Re:Show HN: Password validity hinting
by wonderercat on Saturday March 10, 2012 @05:49PM
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I suspect they are matching bits.
Though since this is going through hashing, the number of matching bits has (by design) zero correlation to how close the P/W is. In which case, yeah, I think the binary indicator would be more useful and intuitive.
Though since this is going through hashing, the number of matching bits has (by design) zero correlation to how close the P/W is. In which case, yeah, I think the binary indicator would be more useful and intuitive.