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A question about passwords | characters used in them (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Why do so many companies and people say that your password has to be so long and complicated, just to have restrictions?

I am in the process of changing some passwords (I have peen pwnd and it’s the password I use for use-less-er sites) and suddenly they say “password may contain a maximum of 15 characters“… I mean, 15 is long but it’s nothing for a password manager.

And then there’s the problem with special characters like äàáâæãåā ñ ī o ė ß ÿ ç just to name a few, or some even won’t let you type a [space] in them. Why is that? Is it bad programming? Or just a symptom of copy-pasta?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I always thought banks (of all places) had the most ridiculous requirements. What, a 5 character pin to get read access to most of my financial data? Are you kidding me? That's like securing your bike with a numbers lock

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Some of the restrictions are there to try and protect users from themselves. Most people don't want to put a space in their password so it's assumed it was a mistake when they do.

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