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I guess (hope) they just have a collection of patterns that they apply (like (3, 9, 11, 12, 15) from the OP), and when they store your password's hash, they als
by john-radio 8y ago
I guess (hope) they just have a collection of patterns that they apply (like (3, 9, 11, 12, 15) from the OP), and when they store your password's hash, they also store the hash of those several characters so that they can present the pattern to you later and check whether you matched the pattern correctly.