What is the maximum password length

  • johnsontk10

    (@johnsontk10)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    What is the maximum password length?

    I want to change my password to a ridiculously long length, but I don’t want it to get truncated.

    Does anyone know the maximum password length for a wordpress install?

    Please, don’t answer unless you have a numerical value and logic behind it.

    🙂

    Thanks

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  • leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    I believe I have seen a 99 somewhere, or possibly 999…and my logic here is to make this post so I might later find my way back to here to let you know the next time I encounter the number.

    Thread Starter johnsontk10

    (@johnsontk10)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    It’s weird how nobody knows

    😮

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    By no means do I really know what I’m talking about on this, but the user_pass data type is varchar(64), and I believe WordPress uses MD5 hashing by default, so…

    ..if one were to use a password of ANY length, wouldn’t the MD5 algorithm always produce a 128 bit value (with a character count of only 32)? Wouldn’t that in theory allow for an unlimited password length? Or is my thinking way off on this one?

    Keith

    (@keithdriscoll)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    I was just about to answer very similar to @claytonjames. I’m with him on this 🙂

    leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    I was wrong about 99 or 999. What I had seen was a setting for “Maximum length of passwords to show when logging failed logins.” in a certain plugin.

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