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A question about passwords | characters used in them
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this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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With very few exceptions, yes. There should be no restrictions on characters used/length of password (within reason) if you're storing passwords correctly.
A very high max of something like 500 characters just to make sure you don't get DOSed by folks hitting your endpoint with huge packets of data is about the most I would expect in terms of length restrictions. I'm not a security expert or anything though.
Right, that's why I put the "within reason" in my comment. You still need to guard against malicious inputs so ultimately there is some max length limit, but it should be way beyond what a reasonable password length would be.
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