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I've just tried to sign up for your service and it restricts certain characters from the password. Why is that?

• mekarpeles 13y ago
  elbear, no, there's no specific reason. We're using an arbitrary regex, 4-32 chars, alphanumerics and a set of specials including: !@#$%^&+=_ Let me know which characters you feel are appropriate and we'll happily consider implementing your recommendation. If you have any additional feedback, feel free to reach out to me personally, m<at>hackerlist.net, tel: 415.690.8033. Ultimately, we're building hackerlist for hackers, so we take your feedback very seriously. best wishes + happy hacking
  • TheCoelacanth 13y ago
    I think that unless you have a specific reason for restricting them, you simply shouldn't restrict them, since any restrictions on the character set makes all passwords weaker. Personally, I expect all printable ASCII characters to be acceptable as part of a password and get irritated when some of them aren't accepted.
    • mekarpeles 13y ago
      Understood, thank you. We're in the process of modifying this now.