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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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[โ€“] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure but if my password is the entire lord of the rings trilogy as a string, hashing that would consume some resources

[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I think there are other problems before that ๐Ÿ˜‚