[Cryptography] How secure are hashed passwords?

[Christoph Gruber]

On 22 May 2014, at 18:17, James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "DM" == Dan McDonald <danmcd at kebe.com> writes:
> 
> DM> Ebay has an upper limit on password size.
> 
> Does anyone know what it is?
> 
> The password field on the login page accepts up to 64 characters.
> 
> But 31 seems not to work.  It accepts it as a new password, but
> won’t let one log in with it....

I tried 24 randomly generated characters. With Scripblocker you are able to paste it and got an error “Space character is not allowed”, but there was no space.

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