• @[email protected]
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    231 year ago

    You misunderstand the issue. The length of the password should not have any effect on the size of the database field. The fact that it apparently does is a huge red flag. You hash the password and store the hash in the db. For example, a sha256 hash is always 32 bytes long, no matter how much data you feed into it (btw, don’t use sha256 to hash passwords, it was just an example. It’s not a suitable password hashing algorithm as it’s not slow enough).

    • DreamButt
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      61 year ago

      ur absolutely right. Idk why I was thinking about it like a normal text/char field