Commit d97bec5e authored by Tim Graham's avatar Tim Graham
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Removed 1.6 release note text regarding password limit length.

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@@ -810,22 +810,6 @@ as JSON requires string keys, you will likely run into problems if you are
using non-string keys in ``request.session``. See the
:ref:`session_serialization` documentation for more details.

4096-byte limit on passwords
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. note::
    This behavior was also added in the Django 1.5.4 and 1.4.8 security
    releases.

Historically, Django has imposed no length limit on plaintext
passwords. This enables a denial-of-service attack through submission
of bogus but extremely large passwords, tying up server resources
performing the (expensive, and increasingly expensive with the length
of the password) calculation of the corresponding hash.

Django now imposes a 4096-byte limit on password length, and will fail
authentication with any submitted password of greater length.

Miscellaneous
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