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Password length requirement (feddit.org)
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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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[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 8 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.