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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Bcrypt and scrypt functionally truncate it to 72 chars.

There's bandwidth and ram reasons to put some kind of upper limit. 1024 is already kinda silly.

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