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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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[–] JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't think it could be hashed if it is case insensitive. It's fairly early so I may be misremembering but I'm not aware of any hashing algo that ignores case.

Edit: Ah, actually they could be storing the password as a hash, but they would probably have to do like a password. ToLower() call or something where they morphed the string before checking... The thought of which just makes me shudder.