I’m feeling sleepy now. So I to just kill the time, I started out testing out Yahoo’s sign up process. One of my friend told me that yahoo silently takes up whatever you type in the password box during sign up it only takes 32 characters even you type more than that. I was little puzzled, since I believe that Yahoo and Google must be having rigorous testing process.

I was able to type in the user name :

12345678901234567890123456789012


That makes it 32 characters. Good, its not allowing me to type further.

What about the password:

12345678901234567890123456789012


I was not able to type any more characters. Hmm .. good for the Firefox users with 1024×768 setting. The box is still empty and I could get a feel that I cannot type in more.

But on IE the picture was different, since Windows replaces “*” with dots (on XP Theme), I was not able to know whether there was a new character typed in or not. After every character I’d to type “left arrow” to check whether the new character entered or not. Not that any one would type in a password more than 32 characters, but a small hint might have given a good indication.

So the conclusion is Yahoo is NOT taking the whole string as a password, you are limited to 32 characters. So the password is limited to 32 characters.