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		cpeterso on March 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What technical reasons are there to have low maxim... Even if saving database space is a concern, you could store a truncated password hash.

statictype on March 31, 2013 | [–]

If you don't use the full hash, I believe you can't really make any guarantees about the variance and distribution of characters in the hash. So not sure that's such a good idea.

birchbird on March 31, 2013 | [–]

If you'll go as far as saving a truncated hash, it's better to just save the whole thing. I don't see any good reasons not to.

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