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Password length requirement (feddit.org)

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

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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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[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The fact that it was a power of 2 makes me suspect lazy coding. That bank didn't pay its programmers well enough.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Banks don't have much money for paying people, methinks. They're famously poor practically non-profits.

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

maybe they store the entire password as a u64 and bitmask out each character