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		AstralStorm 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cursed Knowledge It's written with constant memory allocation in mind. Silly of them to use such a small buffer though, make it a configuration option.

mras0 5 months ago | [–]

No, it's due to the construction of bcrypt - it ends up using the password more or less directly as the key for blowfish (the underlying cipher) which is why the limit is there. Check wikipedia for details.

nothrabannosir 5 months ago | [–]

I assumed all hashes are in O(1) space? Is there any that’s not?

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