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		ars on June 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A possible flaw in open-source bcrypt implementati... Does "verbose, independent scheme string" mean: Have an extra column describing the hashing scheme used for the password? Isn't that what the $2a$12$ is for?

jeremyw on June 16, 2011 [–]

No, that minimum is exactly what will fail in this case.

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