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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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[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You can also hash it on the client-side, then the server-side network and processing costs are fixed because every password will be transmitted using same number of bytes

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You still need to deal with that on the server. The client you build and provide could just truncate the input, but end users can pick their clients so the problem still remains.

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

The server can just reject any password hash it receives which isn't exactly hash-sized.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That would take care of it, you do nead to salt & hash it again server side ofc.