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Maybe it should. Discarding the rest of the bytes works fine for passwords, though. I guess that's just not sufficient.
by taurknaut 2y ago
Maybe it should. Discarding the rest of the bytes works fine for passwords, though. I guess that's just not sufficient.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoIn my book, discarding entropy is a generally dumb thing to do. Passwords are usually under 72 chars, but a lot of people use concatenations of usernames and passwords in their hash to get guaranteed domain separation between users.