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2 points

Nope. No point in storing > 256 or even 128 chars for a password anyway. Useless storage wasted. Also it doesn’t really mean they store the password badly in the server.

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18 points

A hashed password is always the same length though is it not?

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The length limit is mostly for the user’s sake - companies don’t want people to set their passwords to 30+ character ones that they keep forgetting and call their tech support to reset.

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That’s really really really annoying, as someone who has a good, strong brain-based password algorithm and hates it when websites forbid my strong password forcing me to make an exception.

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Ignoring that they must be hashed to be acceptable and that it’s not possible for 1000 characters of text to add up to a waste of storage worth mentioning in pretty much any environment, it’s literally impossible for a 128 character password limit to be beneficial in any way.

A limit below that demonstrably lowers security by a huge margin.

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Ok but are 15 characters too much?

I’ve seen 14-char limits, which are NOT reasonable

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there is at least one bank that I know of with a 12 character limit

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There’s a major bank in Australia that limited passwords to six characters. Exactly six. No more, no less. The passwords were also case-insensitive.

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