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“Substitute any special characters with an asterisk.” (twitter.com)
4 points by hodgesmr 2989 days ago
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gargravarr 2989 days ago
Took me several reads of this to figure out the context, but now I think I understand it.

I think this answers the question about how passwords at what seems to be a large financial firm are stored - after all, there's only one way to know which of the characters in the stored password are special...

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surye 2989 days ago
There's a few different ways, if they need to say they store them hashed, maybe they are hashing a T9 version (at severely reduced entropy).
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