Why American Express has an 8 character password limit
(via iamdanw)
The reasons given don’t sound quite right. If there’s really anything to this, I’d love if an expert in the matter could enlighten me with the details.
It’s a crock.
As I’m sure you know, encrypted characters are all equally easy to decrypt, which is to say virtually impossible. The television/movie trope of decrypting one character at a time is just that, a plot device.
As to the “most commonly used keys” malarkey, longer passwords would make these magical “softwares” less able to identify them, not more (given an even distribution of keys).
I’ll never understand this need to bullshit users in the name of security. Especially when the people most likely to ask this sort of question are also the least likely to buy the bullshit, present case notwithstanding.
