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Author loewis
Recipients arigo, christian.heimes, fijall, hynek, loewis, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date 2012-06-15.08:03:29
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> Is comparing passwords against a secure one not useful?

I claim that this use case doesn't occur in practice. Everybody uses
hashed passwords. If they do compare against a plain-text password,
and they want to change something about it, they should switch to
hashed passwords.
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Date User Action Args
2012-06-15 08:03:30loewissetrecipients: + loewis, arigo, ncoghlan, pitrou, christian.heimes, fijall, hynek
2012-06-15 08:03:29loewislinkissue15061 messages
2012-06-15 08:03:29loewiscreate