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A question about passwords | characters used in them (self.programming)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FinancesDrone98 to c/programming
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Why do so many companies and people say that your password has to be so long and complicated, just to have restrictions?

I am in the process of changing some passwords (I have peen pwnd and it’s the password I use for use-less-er sites) and suddenly they say “password may contain a maximum of 15 characters“… I mean, 15 is long but it’s nothing for a password manager.

And then there’s the problem with special characters like äàáâæãåā ñ ī o ė ß ÿ ç just to name a few, or some even won’t let you type a [space] in them. Why is that? Is it bad programming? Or just a symptom of copy-pasta?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Non-ASCII characters can cause troubles because of different encodings and because you may need to type them on a machine where corresponding keyboard layout is missing.

The password length limit is nothing short of stupid.

xkcd:936

[–] FinancesDrone98 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My mother’s password for everything got compromised recently. I told her to think of a sentence that will never happen and to write it down and store it somewhere safe.

She remembered it instantly.

Oh, and I made her a password manager