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I agree that HMAC is the better option, but I don't see any reasonable scenario where length-extension is actually relevant for this application.

Also, I think that truncating actually improves security: An attacker who knows n (door_id, password) pairs and is bruteforcing the base_phrase can only check each base_phrase candidate for the first m bytes. This increases the odds of a 'false collision' in the brute forcing; that is, they find a different base_phrase which happens to work for their (door_id, password) pairs, but won't work for door_ids which they don't know.



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