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by sib 1824 days ago
>> "PaSSWord123" "pAsswORD123"

Wow - non-case-sensitive passwords seem like a bad idea...

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Not it's still case sensitive, you can just flip all the character's case. You are only losing "one bit" of password information.
> it's still case sensitive, you can just flip all the character's case.

How is "flipping all the character's case" different from case-insensitive?

They flip all character's case in one go, and also capitalise just the first character.

So, if your password was:

fishCAT

They would accept fishCAT, and also FISHcat and FishCAT, and that's it.

Pretty sure they don't do that for authentication.
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