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I don't no why you would want to use a different type of hashing. As for the changing passwords issue you could bump your sitename. For example...

site: 1twitter

site: bump-facebook

Just use a bumping method, it isn't the best... but it works. You could always change the number of characters around also.

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Could use different passwords for different levels, no need to different hashing algorithms.

And its pretty much the same thing isn't it - different salt vs bumping the site name.

Different levels still doesn't work when changing your password. If twitter made me change my password, it wouldn't increase or decrease on my level of importance scale.

The idea is to have one password, with a salt(or service name) for all services. To make it a little more secure, you could set up different levels - email and social, news sites, games..., basically any way you want to do it, and have a different passphrase for each level. When changing passwords, you just need to change the salt of that particular service.

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