The 32 kib bound has two rationales: 1) It is enough/overkill for passwords used by people and 2) larger values are problematic, produce control-block overflows, in some contexts.
The first of these two is the more important. The practice of Increasing the supported length of something from 8 to 16 to 32 to . . . is a preposterous one that needs to be avoided. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
