Re^3: PM password capped at 8 chars? (or 10)

Oh dear. I checked my cookie and this is indeed the case.

$ echo "bv:<last13ofcookie>" > trash
$ echo "<mypass>" > trash
$ john -w=trash userpass 
Loaded 1 password hash (Traditional DES [128/128 BS SSE2])
<mypass>         (bv)
guesses: 1  time: 0:00:00:00 100%  c/s: 25.00  trying: <mypass>
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The collapsing views in Recent Threads was nice, but I'm turning off Javascript for perlmonks.org now (Thanks, NoScript!). Are there any plans to rework this system, or am I whining in vain?

$,=' ';$\=',';$_=[qw,Just another Perl hacker,];print@$_;

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Re^4: PM password capped at 8 chars? (or 10) by Anonymous Monk on Aug 31, 2009 at 23:24 UTC
tye said But that all is being changed (more slowly than expected or desired, as usual). Your whining has no effect.	[reply]