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This reminds me of an intern project in my friends company where they stored all hashes a few hamming distance from the password, so even with typos you would get logged in.

Iirc it had a cool demo, but was never used in production.



> they stored all hashes a few hamming distance from the password

This doesn't scale well with password length.




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