What is the intention of the password hint/answer? Since complex passwords are normally suggested, what is expected input to these fields? Some sites offer standard questions, like favorite restaurant, town of birth, etc. to help identify you when you try to reset a password. BV emails the new password to the registered email address.

Hint and answer were originally designed so that we could present customers with a challenge/response if they forgot their password and it was reversible encrypted or in cleartext. Late in the development cycle during a security review we realized that this could be an avenue of attack and it was not fully implemented. Clearly, we should be removing those fields from the registration page as they are not currently used but will most likely leave them on the admin side in case customers have used them to store other data.

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