In password security, the longer the better. With a password manager, using more than 24 characters is simple. Unless, of course, the secure password is not accepted due to its length. (In this case, through STOVE.)

Possibly indicating cleartext storage of a limited field (which is an absolute no-go), or suboptimal or lacking security practices.

  • ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Since the password has to be changed every two months, I would assume that it means no repeating previously used passwords.

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      8 hours ago

      It also says “must not be the same as any of the last seven passwords used” so I can only take “no repeats” to mean no repeated characters.

      Requiring passwords to be exactly 8 characters is especially ridiculous because even if they’re cheaping out on bytes of storage, that’s completely cancelled out by the fact that they’re storing the last seven passwords used.