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kecebongsoft
on May 25, 2012
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Diablo 3 bug report: "Passwords not case-sensitive...
I am interested to know how are they storing case insensitive passwords if they were not plain text, they only way I could imagine is by converting them in a full lower/upper case before hashing is performed.
dangrossman
on May 25, 2012
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You answered your own question.
Jare
on May 25, 2012
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I'm curious, why would you doubt that your "only way" would not be what they do? It works, it's simple, it has no downsides.
rmc
on May 25, 2012
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Some people think that they must be storing the passwords in plain text (
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4022765
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