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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] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Paypal has (had?) absurdly short limits

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

And (at least at the time of my account creation) don't even tell you about it. I found out by the errormessage in the networklog of the REST requests why my signup failed repeately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Has. 20 char max.