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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The fact that it was a power of 2 makes me suspect lazy coding. That bank didn't pay its programmers well enough.
Banks don't have much money for paying people, methinks. They're famously poor practically non-profits.
maybe they store the entire password as a u64 and bitmask out each character