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What is it with websites restricting passwords to 8 - 16 characters? Is there some technical limitation to their system?? (lemmy.ca)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you expand on this? My experience with Argon is looking up a Wikipedia page in response to this comment, but it looks like it uses a salt as an input?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Its a password specific function. Its also memory hard.

As oposed to generation a salt and passing that with the password through sha256 or something, which is bad practice