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Re:Hotmail: Your password was too long, so we fixed it for you by stouset on Saturday September 22, 2012 @10:12AM (#4557874)
Doubtful. The implementation is trivial. You just try both during the authentication step. If the password isn't recognized by the full hashing algorithm, try it against the first 16.
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