• pirat@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Limiting the length of a password (at least to something as low as 16 characters) sounds like an unnecessary, bad idea…

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      11 months ago

      Placing any restrictions at all on what makes a valid password is an unnecessary, bad idea.

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        11 months ago

        I think I agree, but short passwords like “x”, “69”, “420”, “abcd”, “12345” etc. would take a very short time to brute-force… Is your take that even if these are allowed, it will make all other passwords of the site more secure, since it adds more possibilities to the list where nothing can be disregarded when trying to brute-force any other password?