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Last week, I tried to register for a service and was really surprised by a password limit of 16 characters. Why on earth yould you impose such strict limits? Never heard of correct horse battery staple?

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[โ€“] Sluyter548@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can you not simply have a hashing algorithm that results in a fixed length hash?

[โ€“] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 3 months ago

That would be all of them, yes.