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Password length requirement (feddit.org)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/cybersecuritymemes

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Last week, I tried to register for a service and was really surprised by a password limit of 16 characters. Why on earth yould you impose such strict limits? Never heard of correct horse battery staple?

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[–] Sluyter548 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can you not simply have a hashing algorithm that results in a fixed length hash?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

That would be all of them, yes.

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