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  2. Reset or change your password - AOL Help

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    Change your password. From a desktop or mobile web browser: Sign in to the AOL Account security page. Click Change password. Enter a new password. Click Continue. From most AOL mobile apps: Tap the Menu icon. Tap Manage Accounts. Tap Account info. Tap Security settings. Enter your security code. Tap Change password. Enter a new password.

  3. Strong cryptography - Wikipedia

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    The level of expense required for strong cryptography originally restricted its use to the government and military agencies, [9] until the middle of the 20th century the process of encryption required a lot of human labor and errors (preventing the decryption) were very common, so only a small share of written information could have been encrypted. [10]

  4. Salt (cryptography) - Wikipedia

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    The salt and hash are then stored in the database. To later test if a password a user enters is correct, the same process can be performed on it (appending that user's salt to the password and calculating the resultant hash): if the result does not match the stored hash, it could not have been the correct password that was entered.

  5. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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    Many passwords were hashed using both the relatively strong bcrypt algorithm and the weaker MD5 hash. Attacking the latter algorithm allowed some 11 million plaintext passwords to be recovered by password cracking group CynoSure Prime. [28]

  6. Password policy - Wikipedia

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    A password policy is a set of rules designed to enhance computer security by encouraging users to employ strong passwords and use them properly. A password policy is often part of an organization's official regulations and may be taught as part of security awareness training. Either the password policy is merely advisory, or the computer ...

  7. Wikipedia:10,000 most common passwords - Wikipedia

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    The passwords may then be tried against any online account that can be linked to the first, to test for passwords reused on other sites. This particular list originates from the OWASP SecLists Project ( [1] ) and is copied from its content on GitHub ( [2] ) for convenient linking from Wikipedia.

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