removal of white spaces in password

Christopher Bongaarts cab at umn.edu
Thu Jun 12 13:17:15 EDT 2014


On 6/12/2014 12:09 PM, David Bantz wrote:
> Why would an identity provider not allow spaces / pass phrases in “passwords?"

I can think of a number of reasons why spaces might not be allowed in 
passwords, but I can't think of any cases where the process of setting a 
password would strip out the spaces prior to storing it, thus 
necessitating all validation mechanisms strip spaces prior to comparison...

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