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vBulletin vB4 maximum password length
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:03 am
by spot
Be warned and don't fall into the hole I just climbed out of. The maximum password length allowed on this or any other vBulletin vB4 forum login is precisely 50 characters. Some bugger should be fired for that limit, in my opinion. It's in the Settings / New Password code as an Input Type Maxlength.
vBulletin vB4 maximum password length
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 12:48 pm
by spot
You'd be quite right in thinking passwords over 50 characters would be very silly, I do know that. But I've finally decided I'm no longer going to remember passwords. Remembering them is too often formulaic and far too easily unraveled. I started by selecting a reasonable password length. Here's my thinking. As Tom Lehrer once said, this may prove useful to one of you some day perhaps in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances.
Passwords aren't like breaking a cipher. Breaking a cipher involves maths since they're algorithmic. Passwords aren't algorithmic, they're properly random. Breaking them is consequently brute force or nothing.
A keyphrase consists...
No, I can't get this post onto FG at the moment, the anti-cracking software just refuses to let me discuss the subject. It's a vile module, that one.