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“Substitute any special characters with an asterisk.”
- gargravarr 8y agoTook me several reads of this to figure out the context, but now I think I understand it. I think this answers the question about how passwords at what seems to be a large financial firm are stored - after all, there's only one way to know which of the characters in the stored password are special...
- surye 8y agoThere's a few different ways, if they need to say they store them hashed, maybe they are hashing a T9 version (at severely reduced entropy).