Password 8-255 characters

Soldato
Joined
27 Dec 2005
Posts
17,296
Location
Bristol
Just bought something from the Samsonite website and when creating an account it asks for a password that's 8-255 characters long. I'm not that much of an expert on these things but that sounds like they're storing passwords unencrypted as TINYTEXT.

Would there be any other reason why you would set a limit on password lengths? I know some companies set a limit of say 16, but I assume that's to make people choose memorable ones to get less password reset requests. But 255 seems oddly coincidental!
 
Back
Top Bottom