Is there an explanation somewhere for why most websites have 1980s-era password character limits? When was the last time 24 _bytes_ of input was the kind of limit we needed to impose?
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Replying to @cmuratori
Guess here: technical debt of financial institutions. They have business processes running on some old hardware architectures and they never updated their user accounts system since it's inception in the 80s
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My FinCo just proudly trumpeted upgrades to their site, requiring new password changes: one capital and one special character is now a must for my security!
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There's nothing quite so secure as telling crackers ahead of time that the passwords on your site don't cover all possible combinations! :/
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