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azernik
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McGill will double your password if you don’t do i...
Why is this a problem? If your password is "foofoo" and was set after the cutoff, then it won't be halved; if it is "foofoo" and was set before the cutoff, it will be halved, and then not match the password in the database, as intended.
rafekett
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this, i'm not sure why it is hard to see that this is easy to implement without storing passwords in plaintext.
stavros
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You have to have stored the last password change date, which many systems don't do.
jtheory
on Nov 19, 2014
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If they didn't before, they can start storing it to implement this.
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