Cybersecurity - Memes

The actual funny (or sad) thing about this: even without a length limit all they do is make the password less secure because every constraint just reduces the possible password space.

As someone who generates every password with a password manager those sites are a pain in the ass because you have to somehow get these constraints into the generator.

Maximum length is the biggest red flag to me and was the catalyst for me making the effort to switch to unique passwords per-account years ago. There's just so, so many shitty homerolled security systems out there... and data breaches seem to be a perennial problem these days.

There's just no excuse for limiting the length if you're doing security correctly (other than perhaps a large upper limit just to protect against someone DOSing the backend with a bunch of 100MB strings; 512 characters seems reasonable).

By setting an upper limit, you're basically saying one or more of these things:

• We store your password in plaintext
• We store a hash but our hashing function has an unnecessarily arbitrarily limited input size
• The person/team implementing the backend has no idea what they're doing and/or just copy pasted login code from stack overflow
• We tried to get away with minimal password requirements but some middle manager wouldn't rubber stamp it without arbitrary_list_of_bs