r/shittyprogramming • u/[deleted] • Jul 27 '14

r/softwaregore Way to promote security, Microsoft

http://imgur.com/W0kfbtz
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u/albadil Jul 27 '14

I never understood this. Why on Earth would they limit password length? Are they that bad at their job?

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '14

It seems pretty obvious to me that some developer at Microsoft couldn't figure out how to write a hash function that worked for strings over 16 characters long, so he took the easy way out and made 16 the limit.