Unfortunately our customers are not always computer literate, I receive a
lot of calls about incorrect login details, in reality the customer is doing
something like this when the password is all lowercase.

Password
> PASSWORD
> PassWord
>

Whether the hash is uppercase or lowercase doesn't bother me, I don't
consider it a big enough security flaw to leave this amendment out.

Also 'Andy
Considered changing your settings in gmail?





On 15 December 2010 21:38, euromark <dereurom...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> by the way
> you should NEVER upper oder lowercase the password
> leave it as it is or you lower the security of the the site in general
> and compromise the security of the user passwords.
> thats not how it is done
>
> the hash will be lowercase anyway after sha1()
>
> On 15 Dez., 21:11, AD7six <andydawso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > btw, slightly OT but I find it really irritating to register somewhere
> and
> > have my username become ad7six :)
> >
> > AD
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