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In password security, the longer the better. With a password manager, using more than 24 characters is simple. Unless, of course, the secure password is not accepted due to its length. (In this case, through STOVE.)

Possibly indicating cleartext storage of a limited field (which is an absolute no-go), or suboptimal or lacking security practices.

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 80 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Okay so I agree with you that a longer password is better but this in no way indicates clear text password storage.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 62 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Is the maximum 24 characters because their database column is a VARCHAR(24)? That's one of the first questions that I thought of. Sure, it doesn't guarantee plaintext, but it's a indicator that it may be stored plaintext, considering hashing doesn't care about length. Or at the very least whoever has had eyes on this code doesn't know shit about security, which makes me less confident in the product as a whole.

The only reason I can think of to have a maximum would be to save on bandwidth and CPU cycles, and even then 24 characters is ridiculously stingy when the difference would be negligible.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)

bcrypt hashes only the first 72 bytes. 24 characters is the max amount of 4 byte UTF8 characters when using bcrypt. Which is stupid because UTF8 is variable, but still, it's a possible explanation.

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[–] troed@fedia.io 30 points 2 days ago (29 children)

It does. If you hash the user passwords, which you should, the hash is always the same length and it's thus irrelevant how many characters the user's password consists of.

Now, it's not certain though, which wasn't claimed either, because the front end developer might have other reasons for setting limits. The backend shouldn't care though.

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[–] Jaybird@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (5 children)

How about creating a new account, letting bitwarden create a password, only for them to send me a clear text copy of that passwod in their confirmation email....

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That means the breach is imminent, but at least you won’t need to worry about other accounts when it happens. Just be sure you don’t give them any kind of PII or financial data to save. No, you can’t save my card data to make shopping easier, because you’re almost certainly going to have a data breach next month, and drag your heels about disclosing it, giving hackers plenty of time to commit a bunch of fraud using all of the cards on file.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Here's your password, remember to write it down on your password post-it!

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 71 points 2 days ago (4 children)

What’s more frustrating is when the password creation page is silently cutting off too long passwords and don’t inform you about it.

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[–] TIN@feddit.uk 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My mum told be the other day she logged onto a new bank, gave it a 12 character password then couldn't get back in after. When she got through to their customer services they said that it was an 8 character password limit (!), but it just never said on the register screen.

[–] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I'd be doing that bank if there's any choice.

Edit: Leaving (my attention got taken away as I posted)

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Either this is some new slang I'm not rizz enough to understand or one of us had a stroke.

He just wants to have sex with the bank.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

Your password MUST contain big and small letters, and contain at least 1 number character and 1 spacial character, it MUST be 8 characters long, and it MUST be typed on a German Cherry keyboard between 8-9 PM, using ONLY 1 finger while blindfolded and listening to ABBA music. BUT NO SPACES ALLOWED!!!
This is because of something called entropy we never even read about so we have zero understanding of it. Of course combined with lousy programming, so safety is all on you.

Making all these possibilities OPTIONAL would actually make for safer passwords (higher entropy), as would using multiple words separated by spaces. The only meaningful way to accept a password would be to test it against common bad passwords, and test the entropy to determine acceptable levels. There is no good reason a password couldn't be 10 words and at least 127 characters. There is no way that should stress a properly designed modern system.

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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Don’t worry, pretty soon they will just block password managers from autofilling fields on their login page so that you HAVE to remember your password! Then you’ll be happy it can’t be that long, you can only fit so much on a post-it note on the side of your monitor

/s

EDIT: I think there should be a law against blocking password managers for filling in fields. Any brute force bots are going to submit HTTP requests directly anyway; no one is hitting the DOM to do that

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[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've had a case in the past where I reduced my password to the limit, but after account creation, I was not able to log in.

Turns out they had an off-by-one issue, and a password with a length slightly below the limit worked fine.

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[–] KiESi@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One time I worked a job where you had to make EXACTLY a 12 character password using only ten letters and two numbers.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's insane.

But you could decide on the positions of letters and numbers? While it had to be exactly 10 and two?

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[–] lennee@lemm.ee 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

funniest experience that ive had is that i made a psn (playstation network) account with a 64 (iirc, might have been 32, dont remember) character password. That worked making the account on my PC on their website. Never was able to log into that account on my playstation tho and the error message was just some generic error. Support didnt know what was going on and i didnt either until it dawned on me. The password was too long for the console. Changed the whole thing to a shorter one and now it works everywhere. Used to work on their website, not in the app, not on console. Fun.

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