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Re:McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first by simlevesque on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @10:24PM (#8628054)
That is simply not true. I used to think the same but real world experience showed me that a lot of websites hash the passwords but they still set a limit to password length. You should read this : https://www.reddit.com/r/gfycat/comments/2m7ddd/how_does_gfy...
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Re:McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first by jasonj79 on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @07:23AM (#8629593)
makes sense... hopefully this is their reason instead of the former.
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Re:McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first by tmmm on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @10:33AM (#8630537)
it doesn't actually... limit to 1k chars or something, not 20 if you worry about stuff like that.
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