Weird password rules for website to register

2 points by guptadeepak 2mo ago ↗ HN

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

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rolph 2mo ago ↗

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.

stop50 2mo ago ↗

In most cases i see an difference in the special characters.

jambalaya8 2mo ago ↗

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.

dlcarrier 2mo ago ↗

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 2mo ago ↗

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.