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117 questions linked to/from Fundamental difference between Hashing and Encryption algorithms
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how to decrypt the HMACSHA512 passwords [duplicate]
I am encrypting(hashing) user login passwords using HMACSHA512 using (PasswordToHash(_salt, passwordText, iterations)) and stored in database. I would like to know how to decrypt the passwords.
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MVC 5 - How to convert hash password to readable text [duplicate]
MVC 5 >> convert hash password to readable text. Sample : HashPasword = AMVicVYXq/Gnj+gJ9QMThNZt84TJZwCIIUdFA3upr+wyMZUu4maPpkXiJhbZ5djwgw== should be convert to 123456
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How to get the original string of the encrypted characters from sha1() in php? [duplicate]
i'm working with my sign up module. I'm going to encrypt the password that i'm going to enter during sign up module using sha1() method in php and store it in mysql database. During the log in process,...
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MySQL data integrity check. How to decode or un-hash a MySQL Password on Laravel? [duplicate]
I am running an integrity check on a MySQL database backup that is used on Laravel version 5.7. And I would like to know how to decode the password on the SQL. So far I have tried to decode the MySQL ...
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How to correctly derive Encryption Key from user's password? [duplicate]
I'm using hash_pbkdf2() algorithm to derive the Encryption Key from the user's password, i'm doing like this: $salt = random_bytes(16); $interactions = 250000; $size = 256; $encryptionKey = ...
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How to decrypt the bcrypt encrypted password? [duplicate]
I have written a controller ,In which I encrypted the password using BCryptPasswordEncoder like following public void setPassword(String password) { BCryptPasswordEncoder passwordEncoder = new ...
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Hashing every data input instead of only hashing the password [duplicate]
i have a question about the use of hashing: Why shouldn't I have all the Data I insert in the Database hashed instead of only hashing the password? Wouldn't it be more secure to hash all values(emails ...
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Decode base64 string with custom hash [duplicate]
I have an encrypted string and I wan't to know " HOW IT IS ENCRYPTED ? " I know the flowing: The length of it is 34. It is based on IP address. It looks like base64 or Hex string. I also know the ...
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Hash Decimal in MySQL [duplicate]
I want to store sensitive user data in a database. This contains information like: account balance, e-mail for bank etc. I am now storing the account balance as decimal, the e-mail as text and the ...
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How do you use bcrypt for hashing passwords in PHP? [duplicate]
Every now and then I hear the advice "Use bcrypt for storing passwords in PHP, bcrypt rules". But what is bcrypt? PHP doesn't offer any such functions, Wikipedia babbles about a file-encryption ...
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Authentication versus Authorization
What's the difference in web applications? In short, please. I see the abbreviation "auth" a lot. Does it stand for auth-entication or auth-orization? Or both?
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How to create a laravel hashed password
I am trying to create an hashed password for Laravel. Now someone told me to use Laravel hash helper but I can't seem to find it or I'm looking in the wrong direction. How do I create a laravel ...
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Hash Code and Checksum - what's the difference?
My understanding is that a hash code and checksum are similar things - a numeric value, computed for a block of data, that is relatively unique. i.e. The probability of two blocks of data yielding ...
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Obtain SHA-256 string of a string
I have some string and I want to hash it with the SHA-256 hash function using C#. I want something like this: string hashString = sha256_hash("samplestring"); Is there something built into the ...
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How do one-way hash functions work? (Edited)
I read the Wikipedia article about md5 hashes but I still can't understand how a hash can't be "reconstituted" back to the original text. Could someone explain to someone who knows very little about ...