Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right

Re:Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right by M2Ys4U on Sunday February 23, 2014 @09:24AM (#7285959)

>I think people started doing this when passwords were typically short, to increase the search space.

What annoys me most is when systems have a maximum password length which is something on the order of 10-12 characters. It's needlessly reducing the search space.

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Re:Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right by mistercow on Sunday February 23, 2014 @12:47PM (#7286680)

Similarly, when they disallow ordinary ascii characters like punctuation and spaces.

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Re:Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right by a3n on Sunday February 23, 2014 @01:42PM (#7286950)

Well, then they're harder to format when printing. :)

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