r/webdev • u/Beatsu • Aug 02 '26

Question Tab as password?

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SAS disallows spaces in your password. My password manager suggested an invalid (but secure) password.

So now that I have to make my own password: Out of spite, hypothetically, what implications could having tabs in my password have?

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u/bkdotcom Aug 02 '26

A lot of banking systems disalow html special chars and other special chars.
Doesn't give me a lot of faith in their stack.

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u/JackstonVoorhees Aug 02 '26

Also I never know why there is a maximum number of chars. It’s getting hashed anyway, why are more than 15 characters not allowed??

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u/AshleyJSheridan Aug 02 '26

Technically, there are some hashing algorithms that ignore after a certain character length, but we're talking lengths much higher than 15!