{"id":370,"date":"2012-08-11T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T12:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/wp\/?p=370"},"modified":"2020-04-01T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:17:03","slug":"microsoft-s-live-com-decided-my-password-was-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/microsoft-s-live-com-decided-my-password-was-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s Live.com decided my password was too long: over 16 characters ?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/live-com-password-character-limit-is-now-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/live-com-password-character-limit-is-now-16-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Live.com password character limit is now 16\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/live-com-password-character-limit-is-now-16-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/live-com-password-character-limit-is-now-16.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it was a wise decision to set the character limit for passwords down to 16 characters. Are they worried about the hard-disk space? ..or the speed of processing login requests? How much difference would it make if my password was 30 characters? Are they not keeping hashed (e.g. MD5, SHA-1, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SHA-2\" title=\"SHA-2\">SHA-2<\/a>) versions of passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was surprised!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think it was a wise decision to set the character limit for passwords down to 16 characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muratyaman.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}