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This is not rocket science. They probably store it encrypted, and decrypt in RAM when they need to validate things like that. It's not the first company to have
by simonhughes22 13y ago
This is not rocket science. They probably store it encrypted, and decrypt in RAM when they need to validate things like that. It's not the first company to have this restriction. I know some companies that prevent parts of day names in the password, for example.
- Jeremy1026 13y ago"I know some companies that prevent parts of day names in the password, for example." That is a little different. Its one thing to check against a list of restricted words common to everyone and a list of previous passwords used by a single user.
- simonhughes22 13y agoThat is true.
- xriddle 13y agoYeah checking against a dictionary is one thing, but I've never used anything remotely close to a dictionary word and they can still detect partial password matches.