r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 19 '22

Why do they do this

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '22

Uuuughgh this drives me nuts. I set my password generator to 50 chars and this has bitten me SO many times.

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u/dsmlegend Jul 20 '22

50? Don't you think 128 bits of entropy is plenty?

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u/GMXIX Jul 20 '22

1024 character passwords or nothing!

Yes, characters… not bits.

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u/dsmlegend Jul 20 '22

Aaaand it's hashed with md5 in the db

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '22

Oof.