• excess0680@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 天前

    One of the most egregious cases of password length requirements I’ve ever experienced was for the Shinkansen booking website. Now, I acknowledge that it was probably possible to enter hiragana, katakana, or kanji, but for everyone that depends on the Latin alphabet the possible entropy for the password would be abysmal. The maximum password length is

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    • dan@upvote.au
      10·
      3 天前

      One of the big four banks in Australia (Westpac) used to limit you to a password of EXACTLY 6 characters, case insensitive. Another one (NAB) required 6 to 8 characters, case insensitive, with NO special characters.

      Thankfully they’ve both changed these limits.

      NAB no longer has a length limit, and they’re actually planning on completely removing passwords in favour of passkeys. Westpac allow up to 30 characters now.

      • excess0680@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 天前

        Haha, exactly 6 is crazy! I can’t imagine how that even works. Banks in the US also have been lacking on that front.

        • dan@upvote.au
          2·
          2 天前

          I suspect they just carried over the length limit from PIN numbers, which can be 4-6 digits with most (maybe all?) Aussie banks.