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.

  • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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    37 days ago

    They shouldn’t be using salted hashes since a decade or more. Best is to use a memory hard password hash function like argon

    • @brisk@aussie.zone
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      27 days ago

      Can you expand on this? My experience with Argon is looking up a Wikipedia page in response to this comment, but it looks like it uses a salt as an input?

      • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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        6 days ago

        Its a password specific function. Its also memory hard.

        As oposed to generation a salt and passing that with the password through sha256 or something, which is bad practice