What is your favourite password rule?
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2024
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"Sorry, this password is too long"
Literally gotten this error before. So annoying. It was like 18 characters.
That could either mean they want to limit DDOS traffic caused by absurd long passwords, but unlikely.
Or they store your passwords in plain text instead of a proper hash value in their way to small fields in database.
A more absurd possibility would be if they limit characters because they send the form by GET instead of POST and everybody could see your password in the URL (e.g. in all logs).
Security nightmare in any case.
I had one site limit my password to 8 characters long
That's the worst. I already made a meme about it last week.