salt-cryptography Questions

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I have been searching around and I am still unsure of what a "salt" is and how to use/implement it. Sorry for the noobish question, I am self learning php.
Calise asked 7/4, 2011 at 16:46

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How would I create a random, 16-character base-62 salt in python? I need it for a protocol and I'm not sure where to start. Thanks.
Lanham asked 14/3, 2011 at 1:52

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I'm designing an authentication system that works like the following: User enters password Salt is generated. Password is hashed with whirlpool Whirlpool hashed password concatenated with the pla...

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hashcat64.exe hashcat -m0 -a0 crackme.txt password.txt Device #1: Intel's OpenCL runtime(GPU only) is currently broken. We are waiting for updated OpenCL drivers from Intel Hash 'hashcat': Token ...

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I have some trouble to understand how bcrypt uses the salt. I know what the salt is good for but I do not understand how the salt value is used exactly. Problem 1: What is the correct salt length?...
Marozas asked 6/12, 2016 at 10:56

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I am developing a site in php 5.4 and i was wondering which is better to use to gen a random salt for password security? $salt = sha1(openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(23)); or $seed = ''; $a = @fope...
Buchner asked 30/12, 2012 at 8:55

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I am trying to implement basic authentication for Apache Solr locally. In the screenshot Apache Solr Sample security.json (Source: https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_2/basic-authentication-plug...
Housewifely asked 8/7, 2020 at 11:26

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When encrypting a file with OpenSSL, it is possible to use -pass pass:mySillyPassword, where mySillyPassword is the password used in encryption. In addition, it is possible to use a salt, where -sa...
Mawkin asked 25/6, 2013 at 12:41

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I'm completely new to cryptography, but learning. I've pieced together many different suggestions from my research online, and have made my own class for handling the hash, salt, key stretching, an...
Abel asked 17/9, 2014 at 19:42

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I need two functions/methods, one to encode, one to decode. This is not for storing passwords. Each user will have a specific key/salt to encode the data. This is how I would like it to work: fun...
Colettecoleus asked 8/4, 2013 at 16:25

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Got a question salting passwords in sql: The code below salts a particular password by randomly generating a 10 character string: Update Teacher SET TeacherSalt = SUBSTRING(MD5(RAND()), -10), ...
Coconut asked 8/8, 2012 at 16:54

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I'm trying to configure Bcrypt for a node app that I'm making and have several questions about salts that I hope someone here can help kindly answer. What is a salt 'round'? For example, in the g...
Tessler asked 11/10, 2017 at 16:37

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What's the best way to generate a cryptographically secure 32 bytes salt in PHP, without depending on libraries seldom included in typical PHP installations? After some googling I discovered that ...
Aether asked 25/3, 2010 at 7:33

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For the life of me, I cannot seem to find this anywhere and if anyone can even just give me a link I would be very appreciative. We are trying to turn on SSHA hashing in openLDAP. By default...
Machinist asked 31/7, 2012 at 0:30

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I've made encrypting of the password in my register script and they are stored in the database, and I have to use them to login, so I would want to use the unencrypted ones to login. I've read some...
Ifill asked 24/12, 2013 at 16:34

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I've been looking around and the closest answer is : How to generate a random alpha-numeric string? I want to follow this workflow according to this CrackStation tutorial: To Store a Password Gen...
Myelitis asked 9/8, 2013 at 8:24

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The organization that I work for uses PPolicy (an OpenLDAP module) to automatically salt and hash passwords. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the machine running the OpenLDAP server, so i can'...
Internuncial asked 18/7, 2013 at 20:15

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I must confess to being largely ignorant on most of the high-tech security issues relevant for web applications, but there is one thing I at least thought I could ask because it is a direct questio...
Subdelirium asked 6/4, 2011 at 10:42

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I dont know how to use the "salt concept" in my scenario. Suppose I have a client desktop application that encrypts data for specific users and send it to a remote server. The client application g...
Extravagant asked 26/5, 2011 at 16:2

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I'm creating a REST API in java for an online store with Spring Boot, I want to securely store user passwords in the database, for this I am using BCrypt that comes included with spring security, ...
Gassman asked 9/5, 2017 at 4:32

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While doing an exercise for school I was required to store passwords properly (hashed in a database) using bcrypt. When comparing them the method always returns false. My code looks like that: Reg...
Shufu asked 20/4, 2017 at 8:15

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I though I understood hashing and salting passwords but it seems I have some misconceptions. I am creating a user account system for my website in nodejs. The way I understood it was that when a u...
Encratia asked 20/2, 2014 at 18:3

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I'm just learning about securing password while developing using MySQL and Python, following this tutorial. It's my understanding that the userpassword is stored at the database hashed, and the sa...
Excited asked 22/9, 2016 at 19:10

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This is my first trial for implementing a member site with salted passwords which are all stored in the DB (MySQL). Everything works except for the error in the 'login for members' page. The Error...
Twitter asked 11/7, 2016 at 6:14

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I'm looking for a straightforward, secure, solution for storing a user's password using Node. I'm a cryptography novice, but have been trying to piece a solution together from researching online. I...
Musa asked 22/10, 2014 at 23:45

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