It’s infuriating to create a “strong password” with letters, numbers, upper and lowercase, symbols, and non-repeating text… but it has to be only 8 to 16 characters long.

That’s not a “strong” password, random characters or not.

Is there a limitation that somehow prevents these sites from allowing more than 16 characters?

I’m talking government websites, not just forums. It seems crazy to me.

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      58 days ago

      I was going to say hashing is a kind of encryption but I can tell you’re an engineer, so I’ll simply link my feeble cite and go back to my corner quietly.

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        98 days ago

        The fundamental difference is that hash functions are designed to be irreversible (one-way functions), whereas encryption is designed to be reversible (where the inverse operation is called “decryption”).