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smrq
on Oct 9, 2021
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Gmail password first character is case insensitive...
No, it's only one bit for the first character and one for the second. The case of every other character is maintained relative to the second character, so the parity there provides the one bit of information for each subsequent alphabetic character.
nitrogen
on Oct 9, 2021
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Whoops, I didn't notice that the two L's were still capitalized in the normalization example a few comments up.
freemint
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*and one for the caps lock key
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