How on earth can you both not accept the password I copied from my password safe and tell me that I cannot use the same pasaword again?
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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That’s true, there’s no way to know what sort of back asswards string modifications are happening to the password before it makes it to a hashing function, if it ever does. But the OP did say they told him his previous password was too long, and he was required to change it, so they were either storing it in plaintext, or storing the length of it somewhere. One is really really bad, one is weird, but also bad