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Subject: Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!
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On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:42:22 -0600
Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> wrote:

> As I understand it I would have to double the length of a hashed
> password for it to be as secure as an un-hashed one, as each pair of
> characters represent one byte. Aye?

I wouldn't put it quite like that, it's the hexadecimal representation
that puts one bytes into two characters not the hashing.