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Comment by VikingCoder

"Yes, the passwords are converted to uppercase before hashing. That's probably a bad idea - especially in the modern world - but it really dates back to their first Battle.net game - Diablo - from 1996."

Yup, that's probably a bad idea. Thank goodness you didn't disagree that it's probably a bad idea, like I've seen a ton of nut-jobs do.

That said, I think it's only "probably a bad idea" in terms of protecting people who use the same password on multiple sites, which is "without question a bad idea."

parent VikingCoder 14 years ago

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