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I believe a similar idea (use hmac(url, password) as a password for websites) is used to great effect by a firefox plugin.

Also, please do not use hash(x + y), use hmacs. String concatenation in hashing breaks some of the complexity guarantees and will lead to your hashes getting cracked faster then you'd expect.




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