[cs631apue] Length of password

[Jan Schaumann]

Paul-Anthony Dudzinski <pdudzins at stevens.edu> wrote:

> Are we to limit the length of the passphrase that can be entered? I feel
> that naturally there is a limit to how much text a human can remember.

Passphrases are not (necessarily) for humans to remember.  It is good
practice to use a password safe instead.

However, you obviously can't accept an infinite length buffer and need
to limit it somehow.  I think it'd be reasonable to stipulate that a
passphrase cannot be longer than 64 characters for this exercise.

-Jan