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Password length requirement (feddit.org)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This one time I got this catch22 situation with a service.. Turned out password reset in the Android app accepted 32 characters but in the browser less.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Happened to me a couple days ago when resetting a password for Paypal. The browser limit was 20 characters for the 2nd password box but had a higher limit for the first password box.

Though, it appears they recently modified the form to pop up with an "Enter a shorter password" message. With that being said, PayPal has apparently always had shitty password policies.