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A fellow cryptographer in the security board on stack exchange has shared their opinion on this: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3959/recommende...

TLDR: No. In fact, theoretically stretching the password is more effective than increasing iterations. However, I don't see him citing the fact some password hashing functions have limited input size, which means at some point having a larger password doesn't really change anything.



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