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Topic	Why do companies force you to make long passwords?
Yellow 10/16/22 10:39:12 PM #44:	LinkPizza posted... Wouldnt that be if it were the commonly used ones. Technically, my password isnt a commonly used one. It just didnt have the required characters How about this, when you set up your website, you can change the required restrictions needed on the password. You asked for the reason why, and the reason why is plain and simple, it reduces account theft. The extra characters ensure the character pool is larger than 26. Include capital letters, 52. Numbers? 62. Special characters? 72. 26^8 is cryptographically crackable. The others are more resistant. Personally, I think passwords are obsolete and should be phased out, instead using OAuth, 2FA, hardware TPM, fingerprint scanners, face recognition, pretty much everywhere. People are replacing them with password managers anyway, that automatically generate and save upper and lowercase 30 character long random strings, which makes it a pain to sign in to a tv on a little remote. Password managers are basically already OAuth. <cite>Yellow posted [p:968767302] in Why do com... [t:80199906]...</cite> <quote>LinkPizza posted... </cite><quote>Wouldnt that be if it were the commonly used ones. Technically, my password isnt a commonly used one. It just didnt have the required characters</quote>How about this, when you set up your website, you can change the required restrictions needed on the password. You asked for the reason why, and the reason why is plain and simple, it reduces account theft.The extra characters ensure the character pool is larger than 26. Include capital letters, 52. Numbers? 62. Special characters? 72.26^8 is cryptographically crackable. The others are more resistant.Personally, I think passwords are obsolete and should be phased out, instead using OAuth, 2FA, hardware TPM, fingerprint scanners, face recognition, pretty much everywhere. People are replacing them with password managers anyway, that automatically generate and save upper and lowercase 30 character long random strings, which makes it a pain to sign in to a tv on a little remote. Password managers are basically already OAuth.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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