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A website complained at me for trying to make a password too long. Their limit is 40 characters. Oh.

@benhamill Whenever I see a length limit on a password field this tells me one thing "we store your password, not its hash".

@kelsey @deshipu Thanks for this! I do not understand cryptography well enough, clearly.

@deshipu @kelsey Oh. And I guess this is a reasonable reason to set my password manager to default to generating 72 character passwords, yeah? Or am I failing to understand some more?

@benhamill for the threats I expect (providers getting hacked, mass leaks) I consider using unique passwords that are reasonably long (where I consider reasonable more than, like, 16chars) more important than absolute length. if you think you're subject to targeted attack by v well-resources attacker you might feel differently (but you should be getting better advice than from me if so)

✨Ben Hamill✨ @benhamill

@kelsey Haha. I guess: it's easy to adjust the length slider, so even if the gain is minimal, effort is also minimal. The threats you're worried about are the same ones I feel are mostly likely to get me.

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@benhamill if you are using a password manager you are way ahead of the curve already! doing it right!