Good point, hadn't thought of that. Actually, I think
Yahoo refers to it as a "security key", which seems to
be treated as a passphrase, with a 6 character min.
Your Yahoo password is something different and does
not require SSL, whereas your Yahoo security key does.

John Hebert

--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not long if you have the key. :) I wonder if Yahoo
> really is using a PIN 
> rather than an alphanumeric password? That would
> reduce the possible 
> combinations considerably, meaning that the system
> would be vulnerable to 
> brute-force attacks. I'm just going to assume for
> the sake of my sanity 
> that they mean a normal password when they say
> "PIN." (I could actually go 
> look myself, but that would require two more clicks
> of the mouse than I'm 
> willing to give.)


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