Weird password rules for website to register

2 points by guptadeepak 43 days ago | 5 comments

Do you know any websites which has password rules doesn't make any sense and it is really hard to work with.

Here is one: https://arxiv.org/ Password must contain only letters, numbers, and underscores

dlcarrier 42 days ago |

There's always this: https://neal.fun/password-game/

On a more serious note, whenever a web site doesn't like my actually secure password, I try Password#1, and it works almost every time, with the most common rejection being because it's more than eight characters.

jambalaya8 42 days ago |

I remember a site that only prohibited certain special characters ($, #, %, /, \, *, ;, decimal point (.) and comma (,)), but others were fine. I remember it because usually sites prohibit all special characters or just a couple.

beardyw 42 days ago |

There was a story on here, I think, of someone who could no longer enter their password because an obscure character in it was no longer supported by their device, presumably Unicode. Can't find it now.

stop50 42 days ago |

In most cases i see an difference in the special characters.

rolph 43 days ago |

password rules make very little sense except for minimum number of characters.

when you impose rules on a password you also imply a list of non-possibilities.