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Yes, I deliberately didn't say it was _exactly_ a long password. I was more trying to get across the single-factor side of it.

In any case, if the service handles passwords properly and the user generates one password per service (both wild far-out concepts unfortunately), leaking the salted hash would not matter.



Agreed, but it’s nice to not have to trust a service to handle passwords correctly




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