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A comment on Ask HN: What are valid reasons for limiting password length?.

Re:Ask HN: What are valid reasons for limiting password length? by wnevets on Friday November 22, 2013 @01:58PM (#6782918)
Would the performance lost be minimal if my password is 1GB in size?
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Re:Ask HN: What are valid reasons for limiting password length? by RobinUS2 on Friday November 22, 2013 @01:59PM (#6782921)
Highly unlikely. Probably it will hit some kind of max post size in the webserver. However 128 characters is nowhere near 1GB. I think the gap is quite significant.
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