Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long

rei@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But there must be a (long) max length anyway, to prevent some kinds of attacks.

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  • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Long here means a 400 page book as a password.

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    • urandom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      One of the older, but still usable password hash uses only 72 characters iirc.

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      • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I think if people have 400 page book long passwords it doesn’t really need a unique hash

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