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Aldo_MX
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McGill will double your password if you don’t do i...
EDIT: Someone asked "What if someone used 111111 as their password?", I just answered with this regex:
"111111111111".match(/^(.+)\1$/)[1]
skywhopper
on Nov 19, 2014
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Presumably, "11111111" et al would not be valid passwords to begin with. But even if they were, so what?
RubyPinch
on Nov 19, 2014
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the point being "111111" already appears doubled for example
could just have the doubling check after the hash check though
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