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Password length requirement (feddit.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I used to have to use a government-run website that required passwords to be exactly 8 characters

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

How about a bank app that requires 6 numbers password (not the app PIN, but the user account's password).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

A lot of older systems I worked on had password requirement of exactly 7 characters, no special characters, no numbers and no upper case. Must have been interesting times in security when those systems were made.