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Silent truncation is another gotcha. They drop everything after character 8 (so it fits in the database?). Then they change the schema, and stop truncating at 8

by wisty 15y ago

Silent truncation is another gotcha. They drop everything after character 8 (so it fits in the database?). Then they change the schema, and stop truncating at 8 characters, but only on some forms. Oh, the joy.

ovi256 15y ago
MSN and Hotmail used, and maybe still do this, after 14 characters.
- bwooce 15y ago
  My bank does it after 6! It even reminds you that it is 6 chars max on the login page.
- kijin 15y ago
  Now it's 16 characters at Hotmail.
cpeterso 15y ago
I think the common problem of silent truncation after 8 characters suggests they are using the (outdated) crypt(3) API. The man page says "By taking the lowest 7 bits of each of the first eight characters of the key, a 56-bit key is obtained."