It makes sense for some hashing algorithms (some only take 40 bytes, for instance, which is 20 characters of UTF-16 on Java or native Windows), though the modern hashing methods will take more than enough bytes to make most password size limits obsolete.
It makes sense for some hashing algorithms (some only take 40 bytes, for instance, which is 20 characters of UTF-16 on Java or native Windows), though the modern hashing methods will take more than enough bytes to make most password size limits obsolete.