Ask HN: Why are the apple id passwords limited to a max amount of 63 chars?

2 points

6 years ago

I spent yesterday some time rotating my passwords and I found out that the Apple Id passwords are limited to 63 characters maximum.

Googling, I found nothing about this topic.

Then I went to the Apple StackExchange (probably not the right place) to ask about it without success (https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/387364/263000).

I'd like to see the potential technical reasons why a company would go for such design - rather than needing anyone from Apple sharing such internal details (as the guy at StackExchange replied).

Thanks!

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