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Re: password aging


From: "Paul M. Cardon" <pmarc () cmg fcnbd com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 98 11:08:58 -0500

"H. Morrow Long" thus spake unto me:
I'm presuming that you should store hashes of previous passwords,
and not store the actual passwords themselves...              - Morrow

That would seem obvious except that a one-way hash will leave you with the  
ability to check for prior use of exactly the same password but not use of a  
closely similar password.

-paul



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