Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>  own custom-designed [and horribly weak] hash functions 

The only reason it was horribly weak is they fed the password in 7 or 8 
bytes at a time. So if you go the hash, you could brute-force a 
14-character password by brute-forcing two 7-character passwords.

That would be weak even if you were using DES to do the hashing.

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