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Re:One Week After Launching My Startup by AdamJBall on Friday February 21, 2014 @08:31AM (#7276840)
It's a learning curve for us. That's why this kind of feedback is important.
Re:One Week After Launching My Startup by rickyc091 on Friday February 21, 2014 @08:38AM (#7276881)
As another person stated, on another question, you didn't really answer why the 16 character limit was imposed in the first place. Is it due to some plugin? You don't think people will remember long passwords?
Re:One Week After Launching My Startup by mbrameld on Friday February 21, 2014 @10:52AM (#7277490)
It's because the password field in their database has a length of 16.
Re:One Week After Launching My Startup by hibbelig on Friday February 21, 2014 @04:52PM (#7279679)
Let's hope they store a (salted) hash of the password, not the password itself.
Re:One Week After Launching My Startup by riquito on Friday February 21, 2014 @11:39AM (#7277747)
> It's a learning curve for us. That's why this kind of feedback is important.

Then I would suggest you to look out to the opposite problem, denial of service via long passwords (assuming that you correctly use a slow key derivation function).

e.g. Django now accept passwords with at most 4096 bytes because attackers used gigantic passwords that took a long time to hash