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Is it bad practice to send decryptable data?

If I'm authenticating an action, is it a bad practice to authorize the connection using a decryptable hash that does have a specific algorithm, but only the remote machine knows? Is sending ...
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How does Chat monitor work,if we use encrypted service like gtalk

i have heard that there are software like this http://formessengers.com/mdetect.htm that monitor Chats and can see the chat logs,but how do these kind of software work if we are using services like ...
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Where does SSL encryption take place?

I checked the data transmission of an HTTPS website (gmail.com) using Firebug. But I can't see any encryption to my submitted data (username and password). Where does SSL encryption take place?
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Shall I need to use MD5 algorithm in both JavaScript and PHP for login authentication?

I have a login form with username and password. I post this form data to a PHP file. For security reasons I want to encrypt my password in the database and network. Now I have done now following ...
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How to roll my own security mechanism - avoid SSL

i'm looking at implementing my own security mechanism rather than using ssl due to ssl being 'hopelessly broken' http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/state_of_ssl_analysis/ and also because it is ...
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Should I include a random padding in every HTTPS request and response?

According to the following paper, it is possible to decrypt HTTPS traffic by inspecting AJAX calls and using the size parameter as a cryptographic oracle. Should I be sending a variable length ...