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?

  • x0x7@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    How to properly set password requirements on your website. Accept any utf8 string. Have a nice day.

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      2 years ago

      It’s all fun and games until someone realizes they can just create lots of accounts with large passwords and fill your space.

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        2 years ago

        Not a problem because passwords are hashed, which means they take up a fixed size, and you should have form upload size limits anyway.