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Alright, I understand now. A bit hard to figure that out from your original comment though, but thank you for clarifying!

I'm curious about using two different algorithms for hashing at the same time would affect entropy. It could be that the original plain-text password has better entropy than the SHA1 hash (if that was your old hashing scheme) of the original password has.




It might, but nobody is going to discover your password by brute-forcing the SHA1 digest result.




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