A post on the Washington Post’s “Security Fix” blog, was reported to have said that AOL’s password system should not be considered as secure as is thought of by you. Brian Krebs, the author of the blog said that even supposing AOL enables your password to be 16 characters long, it just counts up the initial 8m which might imply awful news for AOL members who may not pick their passwords sensibly– that is, those who may take in their usernames in them. Krebs wrote in his post, For example, take an imaginary AOL user called Bob Jones, who signs up with AOL utilizing the user name BobJones. Bob–thinking himself very clever–sets his password to be BobJones$4e?0…even though Bob thinks he created a pretty solid 13-character password–complete with numerals, non-standard characters, and letters–the system won’t read past the first eight characters of the password he set, which in this case is exactly the same as his user name. Bob may never be aware of this. However the Washington Post blog has definitely increased the profile of the possible password vulnerability, which is not new. As one of the readers has commented on the post saying that this is an older, famous, finely-documented basic question in the one-way hashing function crypt () once utilized by UNIX systems for passwords. Image 1 Image 2 Read