r/webdev • • 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/kakaggarwal Aug 03 '26

But it depends on how the tab is stored. What is it transformed into while storing the password and how the matching of the password is done. The storage how can only determine the security implications