It’s infuriating to create a “strong password” with letters, numbers, upper and lowercase, symbols, and non-repeating text… but it has to be only 8 to 16 characters long.
That’s not a “strong” password, random characters or not.
Is there a limitation that somehow prevents these sites from allowing more than 16 characters?
I’m talking government websites, not just forums. It seems crazy to me.
They shouldn’t be using salted hashes since a decade or more. Best is to use a memory hard password hash function like argon
Can you expand on this? My experience with Argon is looking up a Wikipedia page in response to this comment, but it looks like it uses a salt as an input?
Its a password specific function. Its also memory hard.
As oposed to generation a salt and passing that with the password through sha256 or something, which is bad practice