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Off topic, but since I tried to subscribe for your product after reading this article... This message should not exist in 2015: http://i.imgur.com/NioopWo.png ("The Password Can Only Contain Letters And Numbers!")

Now most of your users are maybe not going to care, but what's the reason behind this? It means I can't use my Dashlane auto-generated password on your platform, which in the end means I didn't subscribe...

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It's 2015 that's really unacceptable. Since they're still starting up I'd chalk it up to pushing something out as quickly as possible without maybe understanding their technical decisions fully which isn't necessarily a bad thing but it's certainly something that they will have to change in the near future.

Happy to explain, please shoot me an email: andrew@kuhcoon.com thanks!

It would be great if you could explain it here. I'm very interested myself as I'm sure many others are.

Why explain if you can just accept arbitrary passwords, pass them through a hash function and feed its output (in hex format) into your exisitng password handling blackbox, whatever that wonder may be.

I'm just the lowly CEO, I'll see if I can get our CTO to jump in and explain later. :)

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