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[–] peter@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] david@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

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.