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by a_t48 3969 days ago
When there will be multiple shorter passwords that hash to the same value, is there a point to a 20mb pass?
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Yes. Ideally you want users to be able to remember their pass-phrases. To do so usually implies significant internal structure and/or correlations, so to get the necessary entropy they will be large. The fact that they hash to the same value as other things is effectively irrelevant.
I misspoke, I meant size.
Depends. Can you guess them?
If I'm an attacker who is running through hashes...yes. Faster than the 20mb one.