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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I think it's a nonzero chance they're not hashing it. Pretty much every hashing function, in the interest of preventing collisions, provides vastly different responses on small amounts of input. Even if they were hashing it, it would just appear to be the same password in a situation where they somehow got a collision, but again, the column length for passwords would always be fixed since a hash function always outputs the same data length.