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

submitted 1 week ago by Showroom7561 to c/privacy

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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] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why not store the whole thing?

[–] sik0fewl 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm joking of course, but the reason would be the database column is 8 characters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If only there was a SQL command that could alter an existing table...