> For whatever reason, and a reason will come, typing out those extra characters will be an extra pain.
The possibility of having to manually enter a password is actually why I used to want very long passwords to be allowed.
Say I have a streaming account, which I use from my desktop and maybe my phone or tablet. I never have to enter it manually on those devices because my password manager runs on all of them.
But then I want to use that service's streaming app on my TV. Nowadays most services have figured out a way for you to enter your credentials on their website or in the app on your phone or tablet and link that to your attempt to set it up on the TV, but back in the day most did not.
What we had to do back then is manually enter the password using the on-screen keyboard on the TV, navigated using the up/down/left/right buttons on the remote.
Worse, any time your password switched between symbols, numbers, lower case letters, and uppercase letters you needed to press some kind of shift key.
If long passwords were allowed I could pick a password that only uses say lower case letters from a small group that are right next to each other on the virtual keyboard, like qawe, and make up for the small character set with length. 40 random characters from qawe is 80 bits of entropy which is fine for a streaming account.
The possibility of having to manually enter a password is actually why I used to want very long passwords to be allowed.
Say I have a streaming account, which I use from my desktop and maybe my phone or tablet. I never have to enter it manually on those devices because my password manager runs on all of them.
But then I want to use that service's streaming app on my TV. Nowadays most services have figured out a way for you to enter your credentials on their website or in the app on your phone or tablet and link that to your attempt to set it up on the TV, but back in the day most did not.
What we had to do back then is manually enter the password using the on-screen keyboard on the TV, navigated using the up/down/left/right buttons on the remote.
Worse, any time your password switched between symbols, numbers, lower case letters, and uppercase letters you needed to press some kind of shift key.
If long passwords were allowed I could pick a password that only uses say lower case letters from a small group that are right next to each other on the virtual keyboard, like qawe, and make up for the small character set with length. 40 random characters from qawe is 80 bits of entropy which is fine for a streaming account.