At 12:19 -0500 on 01/10/2007, Kim Goldenberg wrote about Re:
Forbidding Special characters in passwords:
Because they don't exist on ATMs. If you have a debit/credit card
tied to your account and go to an ATM, you can't enter the special
characters (perhaps except # and *). ATMs also limit the password
lengths, so that the software inside doesn't have to have more
buffer space than absolutely necessary. That also probably
eliminated upper/lower case differences as well. Quite possibly
folds the letters into the appropriate numbers as on the phone.
What requires that the password for the Credit/Debit card be the same
as that of the Online Account that is is controlled by? My Online
banking accounts have totally different passwords from the ones I use
at the ATM when I present the card. The ATM wants a NUMERIC PIN while
the Online Banking takes an Alphanumeric Password (even if your
selected ATM PIN is just the Telephone Pad translation of the
Alphanumeric Password for the Online Banking).
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