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Ah. Thanks for clarifying. Still, permutations longer hashes don't require substantially more space. Password storage is a completely trivial fraction of total
by gpawl 9y ago
Ah. Thanks for clarifying.
Still, permutations longer hashes don't require substantially more space. Password storage is a completely trivial fraction of total storage -- Compare to a single photo, or a video!
And further still, they don't need to _store_ all the hash variations
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/53481/does-facebook-store-plain-text-passwords/53483#53483 https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/53481/does-face...
- squeaky-clean 9y agoWow, it slipped my mind entirely that you could do the permutations when you create the new password but before verifying, rather than after creating a password. That's a great idea, and embarrassingly obvious in retrospect.