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Password length requirement (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cron@feddit.org to c/cybersecuritymemes@lemmy.world

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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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[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The number of government websites that I’ve encountered with this “limitation.” Even more frustrating when it’s not described upfront in the parameters or just results in an uncaught error that reloads the page with no error message.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or accepts and silently truncates it 🤬