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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by cron@feddit.org to c/cybersecuritymemes@lemmy.world

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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[-] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Sure but if my password is the entire lord of the rings trilogy as a string, hashing that would consume some resources

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I think there are other problems before that ๐Ÿ˜‚

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