Why do so many companies and people say that your password has to be so long and complicated, just to have restrictions?

I am in the process of changing some passwords (I have peen pwnd and it’s the password I use for use-less-er sites) and suddenly they say “password may contain a maximum of 15 characters“… I mean, 15 is long but it’s nothing for a password manager.

And then there’s the problem with special characters like äàáâæãåā ñ ī o ė ß ÿ ç just to name a few, or some even won’t let you type a [space] in them. Why is that? Is it bad programming? Or just a symptom of copy-pasta?

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Speaking of Password Managers, PLEASE DO NOT FORGET THAT PASSWORD.

Because that’s gonna be a bit annoying [Very Annoying].

My story: https://reddthat.com/post/1115518

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While most of the time, I remember my password, I know I could just snap and forget it right there at any point. Happened to me not once. And I’m in my 20s. Sometimes when I forget a password, I just start typing and muscle memory kicks in, sometimes it doesn’t. I guess our brains are not optimized to store long random strings of characters. You could use a long sentence as your master password or do as I do:

Come up with a way to make up a long seemingly random password from a couple words. Then if/when you forget a password, just remember those words and reconstruct password from them.

  • Don’t use common dictionary words or anything from popular media, as it could be guessed by attackers.
  • You can write down algorithm on a piece of paper and keep it somewhere safe.
  • Words should be related but not directly:
    • two asteroid names - bad
    • asteroid name and it’s greek translation - bad
    • real city name and city name from a book - good
    • two words that both start with S and end with T - good
  • If you forget both words, you should be able to remember/look up at least one of them if you still remember how you came up with the word.
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I used a passphrase generated from a word, kinda like an acrostic poem.

Exmaple: LEMMY

Lemonade Endeavor Makes Melons Yellow

I know the word that I used to generate my passphrase, I’m just missing one word of the passphrase, but I know the starting letter.

I could theoretically “brute force” all the words that starts with that letter, but I’m just too depressed and unmotivated to solve a captcha for each guess. Maybe I’ll find the missing word, but it could take months.

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