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>The bcrypt implementation only uses the first 72 bytes of a string. Any characters after that are ignored.

Is there any good reason for this one in particular?

bcrypt is based on the blowfish cipher which "only" support keys up to 576 bits (72 bytes) in length (actually only 448 bits as spec'ed). Wikipedia has all the details.

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