| ▲ | Weird password rules for website to register | |
| 2 points by guptadeepak 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ||
Do you know any websites which has password rules doesn't make any sense and it is really hard to work with. Here is one: https://arxiv.org/ Password must contain only letters, numbers, and underscores | ||
| ▲ | dlcarrier 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
There's always this: https://neal.fun/password-game/ On a more serious note, whenever a web site doesn't like my actually secure password, I try Password#1, and it works almost every time, with the most common rejection being because it's more than eight characters. | ||
| ▲ | beardyw 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
There was a story on here, I think, of someone who could no longer enter their password because an obscure character in it was no longer supported by their device, presumably Unicode. Can't find it now. | ||
| ▲ | jambalaya8 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I remember a site that only prohibited certain special characters ($, #, %, /, \, *, ;, decimal point (.) and comma (,)), but others were fine. I remember it because usually sites prohibit all special characters or just a couple. | ||
| ▲ | stop50 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
In most cases i see an difference in the special characters. | ||
| ▲ | rolph 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
password rules make very little sense except for minimum number of characters. when you impose rules on a password you also imply a list of non-possibilities. | ||