Last week, I tried to register for a service and was really surprised by a password limit of 16 characters. Why on earth yould you impose such strict limits? Never heard of correct horse battery staple?

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    2 months ago

    hashed, which means they take up a fixed size

    One would hope so anyway,

    you should have form upload size limits

    The above conflicts directly with OP’s Accept any utf8 string

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      2 months ago

      Ok. Take up to 65,536 bytes of utf8 string. Or better yet. Accept any password length. I mean any. But instead of transmitting it you bcyrpt on their machine and then use the resulting key to hmac sign a recent timestamp that can’t be reused.