The accounts used by automated processes should have appropriate controls around password storage such as sufficient encryption and access controls to reduce the risk of compromise.

Criticisms were made by members of the Raspberry Pi community about the lack of security regarding root access permissions being assigned to the HTTP Server to allow basic functionality and unsecure password storage in a flat file database.

Question: What are the best practices when using a password-keeping service, and what are the merits and disadvantages of local vs. cloud-based password storage?

Nathan in Huntsville, Alabama wonders about online password storage: I've been very interested in a password management solution for a while now.

The idea for a one-stop password storage and login tool came when a computer crash left Scott without documents he used to store access information to his online data.

So maybe the right thing to do is to consider a compromise, consider that Safari's own password storage is secure, Apple has done a good job of encrypting it, it's in the encrypted keychain, I mean, it really is safe from somebody who doesn't have access to your device.

Some of the applications that use cryptographic hashes, such as password storage, are only minimally affected by a collision attack.

So they were a little wrong in this 30-character password storage.

Everything from weather notifications, to password storage, to a plethora of games can be at your fingertips by simply downloading a few software additions.

Any computer system that requires password authentication must contain a database of passwords, either hashed or in plaintext, and various methods of password storage exist.