Paypal does not accept passwords over 20 characters. WHY?

nukehamster
New Community Member

as 20 characters is now my MINIMUM for length for a password, and i usually use many more for a password that is unable to be cracked by current technology.

Why are we unable to use a secure password length?

do the math

26^32 = 1.9017224572

68488241

4188278

160204e+45

where as is numbers and caps are included for a short password

62^20 = 7.04423

42554699

8022968

330264

61637e+35

the variance in security is obviously several powers different.

can we please be allowed a password of any length?

 

ALSO why are my numbers required to be seperated like this? what the heck!

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hotrod4x5
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20 is pretty long, why not use a generator like this one :  http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/

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