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NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules(arstechnica.com)

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Here is the text of the NIST sp800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines.

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Lots of older databases had fixed length fields, and you had to pad it if it was smaller. VARCHAR is a relatively new thing. So it’s not just saving space, but that old databases tended to force the issue.

Nobody has an excuse today. Even Cobol has variable length strings.

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