Manuel Urueña
muruenya.bsky.social
Manuel Urueña
@muruenya.bsky.social
Security Architect at Redeia. Entropy fighter.
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Reposted by Manuel Urueña
Weird, as you will use a hash function which gives a fixed length output to store. Could be many reasons.

Bcrypt has a 72 char limit.

Django released patches back in 2013 that reduced max pwd length to 4095 chars (!), for good reasons: Pwd auth DoS attack.

www.helpnetsecurity.com/2013/09/17/t...
Too long passwords can DoS some servers - Help Net Security
The discovery of a vulnerability in popular open source web application framework Django has recently demonstrated that using a long password is not
www.helpnetsecurity.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Reposted by Manuel Urueña