It’s infuriating to create a “strong password” with letters, numbers, upper and lowercase, symbols, and non-repeating text… but it has to be only 8 to 16 characters long.

That’s not a “strong” password, random characters or not.

Is there a limitation that somehow prevents these sites from allowing more than 16 characters?

I’m talking government websites, not just forums. It seems crazy to me.

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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    18 days ago

    No. If you’re salting and hashing your passwords, you’re doing it wrong.

    We have password specific memory hard functions like argon that you should be using