Windows 2000 and later have a 127 character password limit

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Friday, March 10. 2006

Windows 2000 and later have a 127 character password limit


The original spec was to have 256 character available for passwords, so 256-bytes were reserved. Why is the password length limited to 127 characters? Far-east/Unicode uses 2 bytes per character. Oops. :-)

Found that 'dirty secret' here:
http://blogs.technet.com/robert_hensing/archive/2004/07/28/199610.aspx
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