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Comment by Filligree | Hacker News Reader

I'd comment on the rest of this, except...

200 chars? Really? Sure, there shouldn't be arbitrary limits, but...

200 chars?

I use the complete works of shakespeare as my passphrase. The rhyming makes it easy to remember. You just need to type deliberately as not to make a typo.

I actually used an entire paragraph from _Alice in Wonderland_ once. If I did it again, I might just make it Alice in Wasteland.

  How doth the little tronodile
  Improve his clanking tail,
  And pour the glowing hobo bile
  On every stainless scale!

  How cheerfully he seems to grin,
  How neatly spreads his claws,
  And welcomes desert rangers in
  With gently smiling jaws!

Alas, your password must also contain a number, and it exceeds the maximum allowed length of 24 characters.

I think the idea was, if it's 200 characters as a limit, then it's not small. Anything less would be small, and closer to 0, absurdly small.

All of my passwords are actually my last two tweets chained together. This 200 character limit is really screwing me.

Given it is hashing what you type I don't see a reason to limit it.

Password manager.

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