Menu

Has AOL Changed Their Password Encryption?

2010-10-22
2012-09-15
  • E. Getchell

    E. Getchell - 2010-10-22

    Hello,

    I'm wondering if anyone could provide some insight into an issue we started
    seeing a few months ago. We use JOscarLib to push sysadmin notifications from
    an application server and noticed a few months ago that they stopped working.
    Looking at the logs, we see that the password for the account we log into is
    being rejected by AIM. We verified the password on the AIM account (and
    verified we can log into it using AIM software). This leads me to believe that
    AOL may have changed their encryption algorithm a few months back. I did a lot
    of searching on the net, but couldn't find any mention of this.

    Is anyone else having connection issues?

    Thanks!

    Eric

     
  • Lolo101

    Lolo101 - 2010-10-22

    Hi !

    It is possible. OSCAR protocol supports more than one encryption algorithm.
    However JOscarLib supports only the weakest...

    I understand this is a big issue for your application. I'll start working on
    it ASAP.

    Lolo101

     
  • E. Getchell

    E. Getchell - 2010-10-23

    Great news! Thank you.

    I guessed as much when I saw the code comments in the AutorizationRequest
    class about the horribly weak ICQ encryption. But I couldn't find any
    documentation on the net on what AOL uses for an encryption scheme.

    Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

    Eric

     

Log in to post a comment.

Want the latest updates on software, tech news, and AI?
Get latest updates about software, tech news, and AI from SourceForge directly in your inbox once a month.