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That also means they are saving that information. I doubt a single character can be usefully hashed. Seems like a security nightmare.
It's also some shitty program that is all black screen with green text that was probably made in the 90s . From what I understand it's used by a bunch of different shipping companies and very unintuitive to use .
Edit: just googled it and it was released in 1988 it's called As400
Ah, crap.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.1?topic=passwords-password-rules-qpwdrules
Those are some aggressive password rule options.
On the plus side, it may be over engineered all of the way to fuck and back. (Or not)
Edit: I searched for "as400 password rules" and that was the first hit.
Mainframe is the notary caste of IT.