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karrotwaltz | 6 years ago

Not so long ago I had to register to a website allowing a comma (or was it a semicolon?) in a password during registration but refusing to login using said password. Fun times.

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thameera|6 years ago

I once spent 15 minutes trying to register in a local Domino's website which kept bugging me about lack of a special character - even though I had one in it. Turned out to be that the app truncates the entered password after the first 20 characters and only considers the first part. Thankfully the special character was after the 20th position so I noticed the error and fixed it, but if it wasn't I'd be wondering the next time I'm logging in why it's not letting me login with a valid password.

kurtisc|6 years ago

Why do you need a secure account to order pizza?

altendo|6 years ago

I've had the same problem with Verizon, in the past the password would only store the first 20 characters. Took me an hour or two to figure it out and fix the problem. I'm not sure if that's still the case, hopefully not.

Freak_NL|6 years ago

You might not even have noticed if the login form truncated the input as well before hashing it. (You probably would have noticed after some update to their website removes the truncation though.)

Aeolun|6 years ago

Presumably it also truncates the password when doing sign-in?

SketchySeaBeast|6 years ago

I've had that with work passwords - using my password generator I give them a 64-character gibberish mess, but it turns out that they only accept 16 characters, and I rendered my account useless until they could reset it for me. How frustrating.

aerique|6 years ago

Hm, yes. I had that happen with a '#'. Presumably there was some nasty evaluation going on and the rest of the password was treated as a comment.

I wonder why I never pursued that.