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		yellowapple on Aug 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux workstation security checklist > *And I actually use initialism for these passwords so I don't have to pull out the piece of paper often, only when I forget. In this example, the Etrade password might be derived from "In 1999 I bought my first stock as a young man. I wish I bought more of it." Ideally, you'd just set "In 1999 I bought my first stock as a young man. I wish I bought more of it." as your actual password :)

Tenhundfeld on Aug 31, 2015 [–]

Can't really argue with that. I guess got this in habit of using initialisms, because a lot of sites had limits of 32 characters for passwords.

But that's probably less true these days. Since they should be hashing the password anyway, why not allow something huge, say up to 1000 characters.

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