{"id":136,"date":"2011-01-13T22:59:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T11:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quppa.net\/2011\/01\/13\/adventures-in-password-security-airasia\/"},"modified":"2011-01-13T22:59:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T11:59:02","slug":"adventures-in-password-security-airasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/13\/adventures-in-password-security-airasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Password Security: AirAsia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I created a user account at <a title=\"AirAsia Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.airasia.com\/\">AirAsia\u2019s website<\/a> a little while ago, I was surprised to be told to choose a password with a minimum length of 16 characters*. I suspect that the average user\u2019s password doesn\u2019t approach that length (perhaps it would be better if it did). In any case, I duly typed in my combination of letters and numbers and went about my business, happy to believe that such an onerous requirement said something about AirAsia\u2019s commitment to security.<\/p>\n<p>A month down the track, I went back to the website only to find I\u2019d forgotten which password I had chosen \u2013 for whatever reason, my browser had not saved my credentials. After a few guesses, I gave up clicked the \u2018Forgot Password\u2019 link (making sure nobody was looking; I must not be the only one embarrassed to have to have to rely on that feature). I typed in my email address and received a message shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, there was my 17-character password in plain text, staring right at me.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well \u2013 if someone happens to steal their database, at least it won\u2019t be any of my usual passwords that they find \u2013 those are shorter than 16 characters \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>(*I see that the requirement is now for only 8 characters.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I created a user account at AirAsia\u2019s website a little while ago, I was surprised to be told to choose a password with a minimum length of 16 characters*. I suspect that the average user\u2019s password doesn\u2019t approach that length (perhaps it would be better if it did). In any case, I duly typed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/13\/adventures-in-password-security-airasia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adventures in Password Security: AirAsia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[42,94,105,126],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-cryptography","tag-passwords","tag-rant","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}