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?

  • Donkter@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The fact that it was a power of 2 makes me suspect lazy coding. That bank didn’t pay its programmers well enough.

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      4 months ago

      maybe they store the entire password as a u64 and bitmask out each character