minus-squarejs10@reddthat.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Signed up for Equifax to freeze my credit, password can not be longer than 20 characterslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoI have seen this on a site before and I never understood why. Whats the point of limiting the length of the password? Its not to save storage space since the plain text isnt stored and the hash should be a uniform length. So whats the advantage? linkfedilink
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I have seen this on a site before and I never understood why. Whats the point of limiting the length of the password? Its not to save storage space since the plain text isnt stored and the hash should be a uniform length. So whats the advantage?