Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoPlease create a non-secure password.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up1316arrow-down119
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minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·4 months agothey don’t specify a limit so 64 character password it is.
minus-squareorclev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·4 months agoGo all in, 1024 character password.
minus-squareSanctimoniousApe@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·4 months agoThey’ll accept it, but won’t tell you they ignored everything after character n, and their login page won’t take anything but the “correct” password so you’ll be spending some time figuring out the actual character count limit…
minus-squareMoonrise2473@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 months agoFucking MICROSOFT did that with Hotmail
minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoNot a big surprise, they did the same with Windows 98. Everything after the first 14 was silently dropped.
minus-squareKaity@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months agoEven worse the password was accepted in full when registered, but the login field won’t accept the full length.
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoBcrypt/Scrypt have a 72 byte limit. Developers can get around that by putting it through a regular hash first, but that’s not common.
minus-squareSteve Dice@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 months agoMy previous bank forced 8 characters with only numbers and letters.
they don’t specify a limit so 64 character password it is.
Go all in, 1024 character password.
They’ll accept it, but won’t tell you they ignored everything after character n, and their login page won’t take anything but the “correct” password so you’ll be spending some time figuring out the actual character count limit…
Fucking MICROSOFT did that with Hotmail
Not a big surprise, they did the same with Windows 98. Everything after the first 14 was silently dropped.
Even worse the password was accepted in full when registered, but the login field won’t accept the full length.
Bcrypt/Scrypt have a 72 byte limit. Developers can get around that by putting it through a regular hash first, but that’s not common.
My previous bank forced 8 characters with only numbers and letters.