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I have legitimately used the complete works of William Shakespeare, unabridged, as a password. Even that is in megabytes, and not significant load for bcrypt2.

Not that there should be no limits at all, but the upper bound should be relatively high.



Now all I have to do is guess which order you used them in, and I'll have full access to your system!


Doesn’t bcrypt2 essentially truncate every source input to no longer than 35 characters?


It’s 72 bytes, but yes. Probably a good reason to have a length limit on the password field if you use bcrypt.




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