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michaelt
on May 6, 2014
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We'd lose our security certificate if we allowed p...
Like a good developer, you run passwords through a slow hash function. This leaves you vulnerable to denial of service by wasting CPU hashing huge passwords:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/long-passwords-are-g...
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