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Largest Study of its Kind Shows Outdated Password Practices are Widespread
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not even mentioning websites that have something like a 20 character limit on passwords
My favourites are the ones that let you set a 35-character password and, presumably, happily hash it and store it in the database, but then provide a login screen that requires passwords to be 20 characters or less.
I think battle.net did this for a long time. I am probably misremembering but gosh whatever service I experienced it with was annoying
My HP printer had a hard limit of 16 characters. My password manager generated 20 characters. The login form had no issue accepting 20 characters, which were of course wrong.
Just another reason to not buy HP I guess
One of the worst offenders I've seen was a bank I used to use. I think they limited to 16 characters and also got angry about a couple different special characters I tried to use. The problem beyond that? The form would let you submit any length and just silently chopped off characters 17+ or whatever. I had to reset my password several times to figure out what was going on. Pathetic...
I've seen this, wtf does this people have on their heads!?
I was under the impression that even just letters (no case) would take a lifetimes to brute force if you exceeded 15 characters. And that drops to just 11 if you mix cases, numbers and special characters.
That's probably about correct, horse battery staple.
Earlier this year I signed up as a member to a professional organization that also grants IT-related certifications... I couldn't figure out why the account registration wouldn't let me proceed, until I typed a super short password instead.