Is there a technical reason why blank spaces can’t be used in password since you always have to hit submit afterwards anyway?

Question

Just reading in that long password are better than complex ones. Wouldn’t it be better if our passwords were long memorable quotes like “Now are the times that try men’s souls” instead of something like Be$ty78?

In: Technology

Answer 1

Spaces are always automatically supported in passwords unless the software engineers who made the system deliberately made an exception. If they’re doing that, the system you’re using is already security compromised from the ground up, because thoae developers don’t know what they’re doing. If the developers are competent, there is no reason to exclude any characters. If a website has excluded characters for its password field, don’t use it.