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by jerbear4328 835 days ago
Facebook does do this, and it's perfectly fine: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/214815

It exchanges a few bits of entropy for a much smoother user experience, and it doesn't actually aid an attacker much (they could just try the permutations themselves)

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Thanks for the link. That's helpful info.