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by gitgud 1978 days ago
Not sure if anyone noticed, but according to the "login.js" snippet, Steam removes all non-standard ascii characters from the password, before encrypting it...

Doesn't that essentially reduce the password's strength? Especially if there's a lot of non-ascii characters in it....

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I would think so, yes. Maybe they are trying to prevent problems with users logging in from computers using different code pages? Is that still a problem?