[Cryptography] How secure are hashed passwords?

[dj at deadhat.com]

>>>>>> "DM" == Dan McDonald <danmcd at kebe.com> writes:
>
> DM> Ebay has an upper limit on password size.
>
> Does anyone know what it is?
>
> The password field on the login page accepts up to 64 characters.
>
> But 31 seems not to work.  It accepts it as a new password, but
> won't let one log in with it....
>

I had no problems with a 128 bit hex integer.