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?

  • Jade
    link
    fedilink
    234 months ago

    Not a problem because passwords are hashed, which means they take up a fixed size, and you should have form upload size limits anyway.

    • tiredofsametab
      link
      fedilink
      64 months ago

      hashed, which means they take up a fixed size

      One would hope so anyway,

      you should have form upload size limits

      The above conflicts directly with OP’s Accept any utf8 string

        • tiredofsametab
          link
          fedilink
          34 months ago

          If you aren’t required to use an upload manager, are you really setting a solid password :thinking:

      • @x0x7
        link
        3
        edit-2
        4 months ago

        Ok. Take up to 65,536 bytes of utf8 string. Or better yet. Accept any password length. I mean any. But instead of transmitting it you bcyrpt on their machine and then use the resulting key to hmac sign a recent timestamp that can’t be reused.