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

No one is answering the evolution of passwords, before rich user interfaces you would log somewhere in a terminal, and you would type user and password in a sequence, separated by a space. And usually more options afterwards.

So a space inside a password would be ambiguous to handle.

telnet 192.168.0.1 root password -t

Something like this.