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Why must all classes' data members be set to private?

In OO programming courses, teachers always tells us to set class members to private unless there is a good reason because it is more "secured". How does setting members to private makes the program ...
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Are there any functional differences in the implementations of OpenSSL, GnuTLS, Java's TLS, and .NET's TLS?

Question Are there any functional (or detectable) differences between the various implementations of SSL/TLS? What are the differences between them? (e.g. which ones implement "False Start") ...
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How should an application store its credentials

When developing desktop applications, you will occasionally have to store credentials somewhere to be able to authenticate your application. An example of this is a Facebook app ID + secret, another ...
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Secure communication between C# client and Java server, using certificates

I want to secure communication between simple C# WPF client and Java server. Now i have already implemented raw sockets communication, and my security is based on: server send RSA public key to ...
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Identifying and preventing execution of “any” function via Late-Bound commands

The Command Pattern is widely used to create a robust, salable applications. However I see guidance in this MSDN article that could allow a caller to invoke a late-bound command... enabling the ...
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What is the correct way to assess and compare Certicom's products to the alternatives?

I'm investigating Certicom's API because they are "free" with the Blackberry implementations, and have come to realize that I have several alternatives for implementing crypto such as BouncyCastle, ...
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Lessons learned and misconceptions regarding encryption and cryptology

Cryptology is such a broad subject that even experienced coders will almost always make mistakes the first few times around. However encryption is such an important topic, often we can't afford to ...
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Reference implementation of C# password hashing and verification

Does anyone have a reference implementation (ideally 3rd party certified, or government approved) way one-way hash a password for C# and or Java? Ideally,I'd like to see something that includes a ...