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gpderetta
on Dec 23, 2022
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Password Requirements: Myths and Madness
You could salt the LSH with a different per-user salt.
wizofaus
on Dec 23, 2022
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True, if you were only concerned about similarity with the same user's passwords.
gpderetta
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which in this case we are. We don't want to reject a password because it is similar to some other user password.
Mind, I think the feature is misguided, but it is probably possible to implement it safely.
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