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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by cron@feddit.org to c/cybersecuritymemes@lemmy.world

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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[-] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 3 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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