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Re:Hotmail: Your password was too long, so we fixed it for you by ams6110 on Friday September 21, 2012 @09:39PM (#4556792)
10+ years ago, or maybe a bit more, enterprise hard drive sizes were probably still measured in MB. Things like the sizes of fields actually mattered, and the older the system, the more they mattered and the more people would have had to sweat about whether the field was 8, 16, or 32 characters or whatever.
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Re:Hotmail: Your password was too long, so we fixed it for you by city41 on Friday September 21, 2012 @09:46PM (#4556809)
If you are properly hashing a password, then the hash is always of a known length, regardless of length of password.
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