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Is Using MD5 Sufficient Reason to Reject This Payment Processor?

I'm evaluating a credit card processor[1], and I noticed they are using MD5 as part of a salted hash algorithm to protect a secret key. Since I know MD5 is generally considered broken, this feels like ...
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Is using the md5 hashing algorithm as method for authorization in an HTTP POST request unsafe?

I am creating a page on a website that will show a user some authorized information from another website, and that website uses a combination of the user's user-number and a secret passphrase hashed ...
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Should I use salt to authenticate data?

I have a client and a server. The client makes a request containing userId, cardId, position (on the card) A hacker could just do the same http request with the next position. So I think about ...
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Why do people still use/recommend MD5 if it is cracked since 1996?

It's still commonly recommended way of hashing passwords, even if it's insecurity had been proven in 1996 Therefore we suggest that in the future MD5 should no longer be implemented in ...
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https security - should password be hashed server-side or client-side?

I am building a web application which requires users to login. All communication goes through https. I am using bcrypt to hash passwords. I am facing a dilemma - I used to think it is safer to make a ...
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Is using HMAC to transmit a password OK?

I'm writing a small webapp and I don't want to transmit login passwords as cleartext. As I don't have SSL available I've written a one-time challenge system which sends a random string with the login ...
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Is this security/encryption scheme secure?

I'm rolling my own, personal threetags.com-style 'encrypted data in the cloud' webapp (I didn't like the UI, and lack of non-browser client). However, I have absolutely no experience with security ...