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Re: Best encyption methods? 15 Years Ago by OmniX Salting a password just means inserting a random string in with the password to get a more random hashed? With the 'whirlpool' string it could just as well as been 'torando' or 'sandstorm' its all customizable depending on the user's preference or are they keyword functions? (as I see whirlpool and crn32 coming up a few times) Which is More Secured? Iterative Salting or Encryption Methods? 12 Years Ago by Bheeman89 … the method is secured or less secured. Is it Iterative Salting (1000x iterative) or Encryption method such as SHA 256, MD5… Re: Which is More Secured? Iterative Salting or Encryption Methods? 12 Years Ago by Bheeman89 Im sorry...correction in the post... Is it Iterative Salting (1000x iterative) or Encryption method such as Blowfish, AES, DES and all others. Kindly give me your opinion on this please. Only works in Firefox but not IE (6,8) 10 Years Ago by dansonyun …list($Hash, $Time) = explode('.', $_COOKIE['Captcha']); if ( md5(SALTING.$captcha.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].$Time) != $Hash ){ $error_captcha = ERROR_MESSAGE_CAPTCHA_INVALID; …to ensure compatibility with subdomains setcookie('Captcha', md5(SALTING.$this->UserString.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].$time).'.'.$time, null… Password 101 (part 1): hashes and salts 9 Years Ago by happygeek … the same value and therefore introducing weakness into the system, salting the hash is recommended. A salt is simply a random… large to be of any impact if the original password salting is suitably large to begin with. As such, although you… Hash & Salt db connection settings (password)? 8 Years Ago by savedlema … reading so many articles on the internet about hashing & salting, and the entire theme of securing database connection settings. I…. Lots of threads says I should use password hashing with salting. Can someone experienced help me with this? -Let's say… sha1 md5 16 Years Ago by Dsiembab …; } ?> [/CODE] I mean what the function is doing is salting the hashes is this overkill though I mean I could… Needing an explanation of SALT's 15 Years Ago by antwan1986 … chance of cracking the user's account, because I'm salting whatever they put? Or is SALT more of a security… Importing MD5 Passwords into Membership Provider? 14 Years Ago by david.1982 … way to import those passwords into the Membership Provider. The salting is what's throwing me off. The only thing I… Salt, Hash and Encrypt Pwd in Database 12 Years Ago by Bheeman89 … in the database. I did some research and came across Salting and Hashing. I was wondering if is it possible to… salt and hash member's password 12 Years Ago by Traps … logins, etc and while I understand the theoretical application of salting and hashing a user-inputted password to save the encrypted… LinkedIn confirms six million password hack, check if yours is one of them 11 Years Ago by happygeek … we just recently put in place, which includes hashing and salting of our current password databases". It would appear that… Re: LinkedIn confirms six million password hack, check if yours is one of them 11 Years Ago by Octet Ouch, rather embarressing to say the least. Salting passwords is one of the first things I learnt to do when beginning PHP for web development. Problem with PHP, MySQLi Login Application 11 Years Ago by Behseini … let me know 1- Am i doing the sha512 password salting correctly? 2- What is the last item inserted into members… No Errors and No Results 11 Years Ago by Octet … salt the passwords, and the Security Answers need hashing and salting. * Thank you Learning PHP Web App Security 10 Years Ago by mmcdonald … very new, BlowFish, which I have never heard of, and salting, which I have heard of but not deeply looked into… Is eBay's stolen password database for sale? 9 Years Ago by happygeek … intentionally make cracking them more difficult and slow by individually salting and using a high number of hash iterations." Assuming… Re: encryption help at login 13 Years Ago by mschroeder … better algorithms such as sha-256, sha-512, whirlpool etc. Salting a hash means to append or prepend (or both) some…. Essentially if your database was compromised the theory is by salting your hash with nonsense you've created a more secure… Re: encryption help at login 13 Years Ago by Stefano Mtangoo [QUOTE=andydeans;1322655]hi, one final thing on this, is sha1 the best form of encrypting/hashing passwords other than paying for an ssl certificate? [/QUOTE] Have you heard of salting? MD5/SHA1 with salting should be okay. In many cases people just use MD5 hashing algorithm Re: What is the best Encryption / Hashing? 13 Years Ago by Stefano Mtangoo …/Salt_%28cryptography%29"]Wikipedia [/URL]give an idea of salting and [URL="http://www.5etdemi.com/blog/archives/2005… Re: Web questions for schools Interview 11 Years Ago by iamthwee … a length with characters and numbers in the password. Is salting passwords even necessary? I was thinking maybe for credit card… string would be stored somewhere, thereby rendering the point of salting passwords pointless, as the attacker would be able to generate… Re: encryption and decrytpion 8 Years Ago by jwenting … password the user enters on logging in with that after salting and hashing it using the same machanism. That way nobody…'s still only as secure as the strength of your salting and hashing mechanisms (hint, don't use MD5 or something… Re: username@password 15 Years Ago by ~s.o.s~ … stored in plain text format. Consider encrypting your passwords and salting them. Industry strength J2EE applications also make use of a… Re: Best encyption methods? 15 Years Ago by mschroeder … use of whirlpool, but i would have to argue that salting the string to be hashed prior to running it through… Re: Best encyption methods? 15 Years Ago by mschroeder … a lookup table of common dictionary words, which is where salting the hashed string comes into play because even common words… Re: Best encyption methods? 14 Years Ago by digital-ether … is incorrect. See [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_cracking#Salting[/url] It states that the 12 bit salts used in… Re: Best encyption methods? 14 Years Ago by OmniX … could still use crc32b? I read that short paragraph on salting and it just states on how encryption works in conjunction… Re: Best encyption methods? 14 Years Ago by digital-ether … the hash into google search. Again showing the need for salting passwords. Re: Brush myself on encryption 14 Years Ago by Stefano Mtangoo So hashing is the best! Cool then. What is considered to be the best hashing algorithm? What about salting in hashing, necessary to increase security or another overkill? Re: Brush myself on encryption 14 Years Ago by phyrtech … is considered to be the best hashing algorithm? What about salting in hashing, necessary to increase security or another overkill?[/QUOTE…