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Deliberately bad software or bad design is not software gore, it must be something unintentional

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Password must match the following (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah! Why can't I use a base64 representation of a pirated 4k TS copy of Jon Favreau's "Chef" as my password? /s

Jokes aside, I've heard some hashing algorithms have a high cap of like 20 characters, so developers are probably just too lazy to switch them out or to read the docs on how to properly use said algorithms. Either way it's a very bad sign, maybe just a tad better than them emailing you the password in cleartext.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The worst I have seen recently is one with an eight character limit and support for only four specific special characters. I didn't test if it was cap sensitive but it wouldn't shock me if it was not. It is the invoicing portal for one of my clients. I wish that was the only technical atrocity committed by that abomination...it is not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

My work only recently did away with the requirement for passwords to be exactly 8 characters. This was due to the use of legacy mainframes afaik.