I don't believe it is "effectively limited" to 20 bytes. This was a documentation error based on a profound misunderstanding of the SHA-1 hash function.
On Thursday, July 23, 2015, Stefan Heymann <li...@stefanheymann.de> wrote: > In the FB3 Release Notes the chapter about "Increased Password Length" > speaks of a maximum of 20 *bytes*. The second blue box in this chapter > then asks: > > Why is the password effectively limited to 20 *characters*? > > It is unclear from this documentation if this is about bytes or > characters. What character set is used for storing passwords? Are > these restricted to 7-Bit US-ASCII? (in this case, the number of bytes > and characters would be the same, but it should be clear from the > documentation). > > > Best Regards > > Stefan > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel > -- Jim Starkey
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