Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules
Amanduh@lemm.ee 3 months agoCan you elaborate further? Why would someone want to truncate passwords to begin with?
Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules
Amanduh@lemm.ee 3 months agoCan you elaborate further? Why would someone want to truncate passwords to begin with?
essteeyou@lemmy.world 3 months ago
To save a few megabytes of text in a database somewhere. Likely the same database that gets hacked.
frezik@midwest.social 3 months ago
Lots of older databases had fixed length fields, and you had to pad it if it was smaller.
VARCHARis a relatively new thing. So it’s not just saving space, but that old databases tended to force the issue.