Largest Study of its Kind Shows Outdated Password Practices are Widespread | College of Computing
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“More than half of the websites in the study accepted passwords with six characters or less, with 75% failing to require the recommended eight-character minimum. Around 12% of had no length requirements, and 30% did not support spaces or special characters.”

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    11 months ago

    My favourites are the ones that let you set a 35-character password and, presumably, happily hash it and store it in the database, but then provide a login screen that requires passwords to be 20 characters or less.

    • m_r_butts@kbin.social
      10·
      11 months ago

      Well my favorite is when they accept a 35-character password when signing up but silently truncate your password to those 20 (or however many) characters and just don’t tell you so you have to guess what fraction of your entered password actually became your password.

      • beetus@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        I think battle.net did this for a long time. I am probably misremembering but gosh whatever service I experienced it with was annoying

    • valkyre09@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 months ago

      My HP printer had a hard limit of 16 characters. My password manager generated 20 characters. The login form had no issue accepting 20 characters, which were of course wrong.

      Just another reason to not buy HP I guess