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I'm looking at some code that I have not written myself. The code tries to hash a password with SHA512 and uses just time() as the salt. Is time() too simple a salt for this or is this code safe? ...

I looked up msdn and other resources on how to do this but i came up with no clear solutions. This is the best i found http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnfa/archive/2004/04/14/generating-a-key-from-a-...

I'm starting a website and I'm trying to decide how to encrypt user passwords to store them in a SQL database. I realize that using a simple md5(password) is very unsecured. I'm considering using a ...

I have been reading about bcrypt (application perspective). Thinking of using it to store passwords on my site. Out of some stuff that I read it suggests either ways: e.g. 1: Bcrypt is a cross ...

I would be using MD5 hashing to store encrypted passwords. Password can be 6 to 40 characters long. What is the database column size required for storing the encrypted password. Also, if 40 characters ...

I need to Encrypt the URLs in my ASP.NET MVC application. Do I need to write the code in Global page in Route Collection to Encrypt all the URLs?

Does using multiple algorithms make passwords more secure? (Or less?) Just to be clear, I'm NOT talking about doing anything like this: key = Hash(Hash(salt + password)) I'm talking about using two ...

I am new-ish to encryption, and have seen many different libraries, however many of them were created many years ago, I am just wondering what people use today to encrypt in python and something that ...

I would like to hash passwords using PBKDF2 with a pepper and a salt in C#. I am a bit new to Cryptography, so feel free to correct me if I am wrong. I use the Rfc2898DeriveBytes Class because (...

I am developing an API project which will have users who will be registering and logging in and out of an mobile application. I will be developing this application using web API .net core 5. I want to ...

I am looking to use ServiceStack for an upcoming project, but I want to use bcrypt for hashing passwords. Currently the builtin repositories use SHA256 hashing. Is there any way for me to leverage ...

For some reason, I have to store the username and password under web.config. I used to store like the following: <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms name=".ASPNETAUTH" > <...