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PayPal is one of the most widely used and secure payment platforms online. With it, paying bills, purchasing goods from eBay sellers and even sending money to friends or family becomes as easy as clicking a few buttons. Suffice it to say that over the course of the last few years it has become an extremely convenient provider of a much needed almost universally accepted online payment service, which is why it is extremely important for both PayPal and its customers that the service be as secure as possible. Compromised PayPal accounts could spell a disaster for both the account's owner and the company's reputation, which is why PayPal has made sure to enforce a strict policy to ensure that users don't slouch when it comes to their own password safety.
To that end, PayPal has compiled a list of tips that users should take into account when setting their passwords, so that said password is secure enough to meet PayPal's minimum standards. That's all well and good – but are said minimum requirements actually sufficient to guarantee beyond all shadow of a doubt that the user's password will be secure?
- Let's look at some of
PayPal's
- tips, criteria and minimum requirements for an acceptable secure password:
- Tip: Password must be unique – this is an excellent piece of advice, but alas, one that PayPal can not make into a rule or enforce in any way. Users are advised to not reuse old passwords, or even parts of them when making a new one. Just consider this scenario – one of the user's accounts that are not terribly important in said user's day to day life gets compromised. Ok, that's not a big deal, but if said account shared a password with said user's PayPal account, the crooks that violated it now have the user's PayPal password, and with it – direct access to that user's cash flow. This type of thing is precisely why users should do themselves, and the company providing them with important services a favor and don't skimp put on security measures, such as making a nice unique and secure password.
- Tip: 'Password must be more than 8 characters long' . Studies have recommended that a password is at least 10 characters long in order to ensure maximum entropy, but 8 seems to be a respectable minimum number of symbols that a password should contain.
- Tip: 'Use lower case, upper case, a number, and a special character [like ~!@#$%^&*()_+=?><.,/]'. This is actually excellent advice – using symbols, especially in an unpredictable manner or at random points of the password, not only at its beginning or end. Don't fall into the trap of just changing all suitable letters with numbers with numbers that resemble them – such as changing all 'H's to '#'s, or all 's's to '$'s. This is a well-known tendency among users and one that the crooks that may want to break into your account already take into account. Thus, by doing so, you are not making your password more secure, while simultaneously making it more difficult to recall.
- Tip: 'Not a word or date associated with you (like a pet's name, family names, or birth dates).' It is important that you don't use such things as your password, for one simple reason – information can get leaked to untrustworthy people. It may not necessarily be your fault. Someone somewhere could have caught a glance of your ID and memorized the first or last few numbers of your personal ID number. Your dog's name is not exactly a secret, and your date of birth is probably not a secret, either – especially if you're on Facebook. All of that information is not something you're likely to forget – however it is also not terribly difficult to obtain, while simultaneously being a potential means for a security breach when it comes to passwords. Save yourself a potential headache – don't use this type of thing as your password.
- Tip: 'A combination of words with unusual capitalization, numbers, and special characters interspersed. Misspelled words are stronger because they are not in the dictionary used by attackers.' This tip is pretty solid as well – unusual words, capitalizations, interspersed with special characters seem to make some of the strongest passwords one could generate. Using misspelled words, obscure ones, or even ones spelled backward is also an excellent idea, as the patterns created by doing so may be easier to remember while still maintaining a level of complexity which makes them very difficult to guess through nefarious means.
- Tip: 'Something you can remember.' This is also an excellent piece of advice – the password you make should be both secure and memorable. Unless you employ a password manager software to keep it for you, a long and complex password is meaningless unless you can actually input it at your convenience.
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Conclusion
PayPal's advice on how users should compose their passwords is pretty solid. There's a good reason why most of the 'tips' that PayPal gives its users are actually the minimum requirement for a proper password. Overall, the practices recommended here are excellent for improving one's online safety, and users should seriously consider adopting all of the said practices when making accounts on other sites and platforms that are less stringent with their security measures.
PayPal has now added 2FA, so this info is no longer needed. Kept for posterity.
Two-factor authentication today is a must to keep your online accounts safe. You certainly want to keep your PayPal account safe. Using SMS to add an extra
Software Installation
First, we need to install some software. I’m using a Macintosh, and these instructions should work under Linux.
First, you need to install the Xcode command line software. Just open the Terminal application that you can find in the /Applications/
Start it and enter:
This command installs the necessary tools for the rest of the installation.
Now, let’s install the actual tool that creates the key.
Enter the following into the terminal application:
I had to replace pip3 with pip on my installation, but I have many changes in my Python setup, so that may be the reason why pip3 didn’t work on my Mac.
You need to install a software called HomeBrew.
Just enter the following in the Terminal window and press return:
Now we can use Brew to install the rest of the software needed.
Just type the following into Terminal and press enter:
That’s all the software you need. Now let’s continue.
Creating Two-Factor Authentication Key
Let’s continue in the Terminal application. We first need to create a key. This key will be used to generate all the six-digit authentications later.
Enter this into Terminal and press return:
This will create a unique key and store it in a hidden folder in your home directory.
Selena gomez free download mp3. The output from the command should look something like this.
Generating request…
Fetching provisioning response…
Getting token from response…
Decrypting token…
Checking token…
Credential created successfully:
otpauth://totp/VIP%20Access:VSSTXXXXXXXX?digits=6&secret=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&period=30&algorithm=SHA1&issuer=Symantec
This credential expires on this date: 2022-02-12T02:26:33.767Z
You will need the ID to register this credential: VSSTXXXXXX
You can use
as would be produced by the official VIP Access apps:
oathtool -d6 -b –totp XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX # 6-digit code
oathtool -d6 -b –totp -v XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX # … with extra information
Your information is going to look different. The X:ed out in the above output is my key, so I’ve obscured it with X:es. You are going to need this information later to create the key required for PayPal. It’s a good thing to save this output, so copy the text from the Terminal application and paste it into the “Notes” field of your PayPal password inside 1Password.
PayPal Settings
Now it’s time to log in to PayPal and do some changes.
You need to login to your PayPal account. Go to your account setting, and click on “My Settings”. Click on “Update” under the section “Security key”.
Click on “Activate a new security key token.” See picture below.
In the field “Serial number”, enter the key from the output in the Terminal application called “You will need the ID to register this credential:”
It starts with VSST and has six digits after it. Copy it complete with VSST and the six following numbers. Paste it into PayPal’s field “Serial number”
In step 2 on PayPal’s setting, you should input a 6-digit code, but you need to create one first. Copy the command you got from the Terminal output when creating your key. It should look something like this:
oathtool -d6 -b –totp XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX # 6-digit code
Paste it into the Terminal application and press return.
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This will display a six-digit code. Just copy the generated code from your Terminal window into the first 6-digit field.
Now go back to the Terminal application, and repeat the command. The easiest way is to just press the up-arrow on your keyboard, which should fill in the command you just entered automatically. Press return. If the six-digit key is the same, just keep repeating the command until you get a new unique key. Copy that key and paste it into the field “Next 6-digit key” on the PayPal web page.
Now press activate on the PayPal page and if everything worked out, you should now have a security key completed in PayPal.
Let’s move on to 1Password and make it automatically generate the two-factor authentication for your PayPal password.
1Password Two-Factor Authentication For PayPal
Open the 1Password application. Search for your PayPal password in the search field. Select the PayPal password and press the “Edit” button in the lower right side of the 1Password window.
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Now press the circle with three dots inside to add a new field. Select “One-time password” as the field type.
You now have a One-Time Password field, but you need to add the secret key into this field. Copy the information Credential created successfully: you got earlier when we created the key in the Terminal application. It should look something like this:
Now all you have to do is to paste the entire line into the “One-Time Password” field inside 1Password.
Press save in 1Password in the lower right side of the window.
Let’s try it out!
If you added the field described above, as a result, you should now have an indicator showing a timer and a six-digit generated key on one of the lines of information in 1Password for your PayPal password.
If you’ve have done all of the above and everything worked, you are now ready to try it out. Log out of PayPal, and try to log in again using 1Password. It should automatically fill out the password and then copy the generated six-digit key into the clipboard. Paste the six-digit key into the field when PayPal ask for it. You should now be logged in.
Conclusion
If you think that this was a lot of stuff to do just to get better security in PayPal, you’re absolutely right. Send an email to PayPal and ventilate your anger. If they just used normal 2FA-encryption you wouldn’t need all this work. But if you managed to get through all this, give yourself a pat on the back. You just made your PayPal much safer and also gives you a more