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As for the choice of 4096, well, I would have chosen 4000 (or 1000) simply because it's more comprehensible from an end-user perspective. 4096 is a convenient
by ubernostrum 13y ago
As for the choice of 4096, well, I would have chosen 4000 (or 1000) simply because it's more comprehensible from an end-user perspective.
4096 is a convenient power of 2, and is the same as the default limit enforced by passlib (a popular password-hashing tool in Python).