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HMACSHA512 versus Rfc2898DeriveBytes for password hash

We are currently using HMACSHA512 in .net, with a 128Char (64byte) validation key The salt is 64 char randomly generated string. We allocated 2048 length on the database for the hashed base64 string ...
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With ASIC bitcoin miners, should SHA256 be considered insecure for password hashing?

I'm sure everyone here has seen the rise and further rise of bitcoin. The process used for mining bitcoin is basically "let's brute force an SHA256 hash that is less than this amount" That being ...
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what does GUID have that a whirlpool, md5 or sha2 hash dont

I'm trying to understand the use of GUID and what has always left me wondering is what's so special about them that I should consider using them instead of rolling my own type of unique id. In other ...
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Confidentiality and integrity for web session

When the client authenticates with our service, he is issued an opaque "token". This token includes the information, that identifies the client and some other information about the client ("payload"). ...
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Using John the Ripper to crack SHA hash w/ partial knowledge

Group, I have a SHA1 hash that I would like to brute-force. I have knowledge of several characters before and after the password (ie, if the hash is derived from "xxxpasswordyyy", I know both xxx and ...
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Creating a rainbow table with predefined text

I need to extract a password from a hash. This hash was generated by prepending and appending two different predefined strings to the password: Hash(PredefinedString1+Password+PredefinedString2) ...
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Easy protocol for email authentication

I'm cooking up a very simple system to send commands to a remote server via email. Everytime an email is sent to do_something@mydomain.net, the server runs a python script that does something ...
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Is SHA-1 encryption?

I have read that SHA-1 is a cryptographic hash function. On an exam, SHA-1 was given as a possible one-way encryption algorithm. Does SHA-1 require a key as input? Is a key required to qualify as ...
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Will SHA1 of Email Addresses Always be Unique?

We want to store data about a person without storing their email address, but we want to latter connect that person with their data upon them supplying their email address. Storing a SHA1 of their ...
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Is there a table that compares hashing algorithms by speed, relatively (machine independent)

As far as I understood*, one of the major criteria when choosing a password / salt hashing algorithm is it's speed. To prevent brute force attacks, a slower algorithm is better (and also makes it more ...
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Replacing weak SSH fingerprint algorithms

Even though MD5 has been broken for years and its vulnerabilities have been used to create real-world rogue X.509 CAs and other horrible things, OpenSSH and PuTTY still use MD5 as the default public ...
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create a variants of MD5

I have also asked similar q here : To create a variants of MD5, I made following changes : MD5 uses a non-linear sin(i)* pow(2,32) ----> i plane to use cos(i)*pow(2,32) Instead ...
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Preventing dictionary attacks against hashed passwords [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to securely hash passwords? I have a website and on that website I use SHA-256 and salt my user's passwords. What I'm doing right now is padding each letter of the ...
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Why do most hashing functions produce hashes that have characters a-f 0-9?

This is something I never understood about hashing functions. I know that algorithms like whirlpool and blowfish both produce outputs that don't follow this pattern, but why is it that most do? Is ...
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Is SHA1 better than md5 only because it generates a hash of 160 bits?

It is well known that SHA1 is recommended more than md5 for hashing since md5 is practically broken as lot of collisions have been found. With the birthday attack, it is possible to get a collision ...
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Is sha-1 hash always the same?

Is it possible to ensure that a string is hashed always the same way no matter which language you use to do it (Java, vb.net... ) and no matter what operative system you are?
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Is it possible to know the key if we have the original value and the hash using HmacSHA1?

I was wondering if it were possible to know the key if you already know the original value and the hashed result. For example, let's say : `$value` = helloworld `$hmac_key` = 0123456789 `$result` = ...