Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by luc4sdreyer on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:02PM
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What kind of range limits are you talking about? 30? 100?
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Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by rypskar on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @08:26AM
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Lots of sites have a limit of 72 characters, maybe even without the developers knowing about it. Bcrypt has a limit of 72
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by cgriswald on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @10:56AM
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It's honestly a crapshoot. I've seen as low as 8 (a sibling poster says 6), but 10, 12, 15, 16, and 20 are not unusual. It's usually an even number, so you can just knock 2 characters off your password at a time (after making it an even number) until you're down to the maximum to figure it out.
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by jtc331 on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:09PM
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Wells Fargo’s is 12 IIRC.
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by marktangotango on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:45PM
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Lots and lots of legacy systems do this, very low limit, case insensitive, numbers and letters only. I know of a major retailer with 10 character, case insensitive, alpha numeric for All their systems. Why? Because that’s the lowest common denominator (as400).
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by efreak on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:26AM
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That's how my dentist's billing website works. Except it's limited to 8 alphanumeric characters, not 10, and they were quite happy to accept my pasting a 16-character generated password into the field. Unfortunately, they don't have a password reset link; instead, the you call the receptionist and they read out your password to you over the phone. This isn't a legacy system, either. I can only imagine the backend is written in QBasic or something.
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by taftster on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:53PM
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I have a 14 character WFC password, seemingly works fine.
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by MertsA on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:16AM
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Try changing the last two characters and see if it still lets you in. It's not that uncommon that people mix up when to filter input and when to validate it.
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by taftster on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:13AM
(#20692666)
Tried and failed (to login). Looks like they are at least validating my entire password.
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by dgellow on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:17PM
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I believe that Blizzard had a limit of ~20 until recently for battle.net accounts (don't know if that's still the case).
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by Tecuane on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:54PM
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Passwords for Blizzard accounts are also case-insensitive, as they are converted to upper case before hashing. Try it!
I first found this while working on a WoW server emulator in around 2009, but I believe it's been the case since Battle.net 1.0 was launched in 1996. In order to preserve backwards compatibility, it's never been changed.
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by Dextro on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:36AM
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I remember that Microsoft got stuck with a 16 character limit for a while thanks to hotmail.
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by deadbunny on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @09:23AM
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"for a while"
You mean until May of 2019?
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Director...
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by emerongi on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:14PM
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Often it's 20. Not sure why 20 is so common.
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by michaelmior on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:03PM
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Someone somewhere probably posted a code sample with a 20 character limit...