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		pps43 on Sept 11, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security They could still hash the long password, without trimming, and store 64 bits of that hash.

jedberg on Sept 11, 2018 [–]

True, but then you'd have to make sure that all software that accesses that field is aware of the hash, and chances are if you have a legacy system like that, you have legacy software too.

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