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Re:Dumb Password Rules by 0XAFFE on Monday December 05, 2016 @11:47AM (#13106721)
Popular German bank „Sparkasse“ has this great online banking system that allows you only 5 characters (Small and large, numbers, umlauts and eszet[1]). They call it a PIN (Personal identification /number/), but IMO its terribly insecure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F

Re:Dumb Password Rules by Bartweiss on Monday December 05, 2016 @12:16PM (#13107036)
The entire 'pin' scheme frustrates me. I've started to see it in a growing number of places as full authentication - either no password or pin accepted without the password.

5 characters with those options obviously isn't enough, but it's still better than "four digit numeric", which is also out there. That's such a small space that you can try it by hand, for god's sake.

Re:Dumb Password Rules by duffn on Monday December 05, 2016 @11:13PM (#13112200)
This is the second time I've now heard of this since starting the repo. I cannot believe an online financial institution allows this.

Feel free to submit a PR if you like.

Re:Dumb Password Rules by 0XAFFE on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @06:04AM (#13113722)
@duffn is ok if its in german?
Re:Dumb Password Rules by duffn on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @07:09AM (#13113987)
Sure. If you could also provide a description in English as well I think that would be helpful. Here's a non-English example: https://github.com/duffn/dumb-password-rules#movistar