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It's written with constant memory allocation in mind. Silly of them to use such a small buffer though, make it a configuration option.
by AstralStorm 1y ago
It's written with constant memory allocation in mind. Silly of them to use such a small buffer though, make it a configuration option.
- nothrabannosir 1y agoI assumed all hashes are in O(1) space? Is there any that’s not?
- mras0 1y agoNo, it's due to the construction of bcrypt - it ends up using the password more or less directly as the key for blowfish (the underlying cipher) which is why the limit is there. Check wikipedia for details.