Password encryption is the act of securing a password with another password. It is basically insecure and open to legal objections. If your intent is to use passwords for authentication (e.g. for logins), look at hashing instead of encryption.

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The proper way of implementing user login system

I want to make a user login system for the purpose of learning. I have several questions. I did some research and found that the proper way of implementing user login system is to remember user ...
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Encryption in jsp and decryption in java

Please help in guiding the way do AES Encryption in jsp and the decryption in java. I have used the following code to encrypt var key = ...
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PHP: is this password encryption secure?

I found this example how to hash and check the passwords with php. Now I ask myself if this version is a good example. public function hashPassword($mail, $password, $salt, $rounds='08') { $length ...
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Rails - has_secure_password with password AND PIN - password_digest limitation

I want to have two layers of authentication - I'll call them "hard" and "soft" authentication. The hard layer is the standard email-and-password layer. I've currently implemented this using ...
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password_verify always fails value returned from password_hash

I'm really new to password hashing but since I'm on PHP 5.4 it looked like the password_compat project by Anthony Ferrara would be the right thing to use. I assume I'm doing something wrong that I am ...
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Is there anyway to send someone a password that they can use but cannot see?

Just trying to hack together a simple script, and I had a little question about passwords. Is there anyway I can send someone a random password that they cannot see themselves but can use to say, ...
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PHP password hashing with password_compat library

I have a tiny question about using the password_compat library. I've only just updated my local PHP version to 5.4.x to be able to use this library. Now it says on the page that you need to check the ...
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My applications need to send emails, where and how should I store the SMTP password?

It seems like every application I create needs to be able to send the occasional email. E.g. status emails. For this question, assume my application is a backup tool, locally installed on many windows ...
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Why do firefox and chrome allow users to view saved passwords?

It seems like a very big security leak, as anyone can quickly go to the settings and with one click show the passwords of the original user. I also don't see the benefit of it to the original user to ...
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Spring-Security PasswordEncoder returns null

I have implemented Spring security on my struts2 application and it perfectly works, but it runs into error java.lang.NullPointerException on line 3. Although it seems passwordEncoder configuration ...
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Replication of xcart blowfish algorithm

Let me rephrase what I'm trying to do below. I have a password that has been encrypted by blowfish algorithm in x-cart saved in the database as 67mklmkl5470dflmgrs for example. I have the blowfish ...
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Passwords hashed differently on different servers

This is quite strange. Everything has been working fine on the shared server, but the passwords given when users register are hashed completely differently. For example this is about how all hashed ...
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How to hash a password using function <user_hash_password>

I am not a professional developer so my question might sound dumb, sorry for that, I am making an android app which connects to a database of users whose passwords are stored in hashed format, so I ...
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Log into Wordpress by Moodle DB

I deploy Wordpress(Version 3.5.1) and Moodle(V 2.5+) at my PC. And i install the Wrodpress plugin External DB authentication to make the Moodle DB's user could be able to log into Wordpress instead ...
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Compare candidate password with bcrypt hash in Mongo

I want to make a Mongo FindAndModify request which finds a user by email and password and then updates it in one request, to be atomic. With basic MD5 hashed passwords and predefined salt I'd ...
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Ruby on Rails Tutorial section 6.3 test suite failing

Hi can I ask assistance on this. I have followed the tutorial and from 6.3 up to 6.3.4. At the end of the chapter I don't seem to be able to have green tests. I receive three errors. I have tried to ...
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MYSQL 4 password hashing -> MYSQL 5

I have a bit of a plight. My mysql 4.1.0 database has to be upgraded (1and1) but it seems the application used PASSWORD() for hashing. With the mysql 5 upgrade PASSWORD() gives an entirely different ...
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How to hide/protect password details in php?

I'm making a website in which I'm trying to create a form that will send the user-input to a google spreadsheet in my google docs/drive... I found a Github project that lets people code the php... It ...
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Convert Plain password into .NET Membership HASH password in T-SQL

We have a system that stores the username/password as plain text. I have been asked to covert this to Membership. I'd like a SQL function to convert the plain text password into .NET Membership ...
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storing an integer array using shared preference

I want to create a picture based password system, wherein the user clicks on certain positions in an image, and then that is verified.. Can anyone help me out..how to store these pixel locations. ...
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PBKDF2 security in Javascript

In PBKDF2 the salt should be unique for each passwort, so two users using the same password are getting two different hashes. My Idea for the salt is a SHA1-hash of the username and the password, so ...
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Hash encrypting password when inserting into database

I'm doing an application for school and I'm in need of help in encrypting passwords when inserting them into my users database.I'm programming in c# programming language and i'm using MS server 2008 ...
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Some feedback on my password hashing algorithm php mysql corona sdk

My site is not in production yet and I wanted some advice on password hashing before I go live and it's hard to change things. In general my site is hosted on EC2 and will use Amazon RDS. I'll ...
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Should I use codeigniter's encryption key for hashing passwords?

I've seen in some cases developers that use the encryption key, from the config.php, to hash passwords and store them in database. I was wondering is it better to do it this way, or better by creating ...
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Laravel 4 Hash::check not working [closed]

I hashed a password with Hash::make and then checked said password with Hash::check, and it comes back true no matter what password I input into Hash::make. I'm using the latest stable version of ...
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What is the algorithm used by Maven's encryption (DefaultPlexusCipher)?

I was reading the Apache Maven guide on password encryption at: http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-encryption.html This never states how the encryption is done, but some searching found this ...
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bcrypt and randomly generated salts

So I was experimenting with bcrypt. I have a class(shown below, which I got from http://www.firedartstudios.com/articles/read/php-security-how-to-safely-store-your-passwords) in which there are 3 ...
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Password security using JMS Request-Reply

I am implementing a Request-Reply pattern using JMS (ActiveMQ) as a logon service. It all works well. I send the username and password in the message and then check the encrypted version of the ...
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Best Algorithm to encrypt password [closed]

I want to encrypt the password & store the encrypted value in MySQL database. What algorithm is the best way to go for encryption in Java? For each user, I've userid, useremail field as well ...
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maven password encryption issue

when executing command: mvn -ep for encrypting server password for settings.xml from my windows box the command terminal just hangs. Any ideas whats wrong? The server password only has numbers and ...

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