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Security of Javascript in mobile browsers

Is Javascript on a mobile browser more secure than Javascript on other types of systems? For instance, if I have a site that includes some client-side (Javascript) encryption code, with the intention ...
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How secure is aSSL (javascript)? Does it effectively mimic SSL?

Some of you may be familiar with the aSSL project, which uses AJAX/PHP to mimic the SSL protocol. It uses RSA 512 or 1024 for the keys, and AES for the actual data. It looks impressive to me in ...
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Encrypting string in javascript and decryption in java

I would like to know if someone know any library to do encryption in javascript and decryption in java. I have already tried many API, But getting not not getting same values in java. I want ...
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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 can i find what hashing algorithm was used?

One of my clients has asked me to modify the login page that their board members use to access their materials. The problem here is that the person previously responsible for this has left no ...
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A proposal for Data Transmission and Password Encryption [closed]

I need to implement a sensitive data protection scheme which can meet the requirements on secure data transmission, protection and storage, assuming mutually trusted third party is not available, that ...
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How secure are self decrypting HTML files for data storage?

I recently came across a JavaScript self decrypting archive. Is it secure enough to be used as a portable password storage tool? The author has even challenged it to be cracked.
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What browsers support encryption or decryption using local certificates, or smartcard readers?

I am working on a cloud-based solution and I would like to encrypt / decrypt the data locally using either a SmartCard or local Machine certificate. I'm hoping to do this in Javascript, but may ...
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Is a JavaScript implementation of AES any less secure than other language implementations?

There are a few JavaScript AES implementations available such as Gibberish-aes So assuming the AES algorithm has been implemented correctly in this library then it should be as secure as any other ...
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RSA Key Pair generation with Javascript

I need to generate a RSA key pair with Javascript. This key pair will be used for encrypting a one time blob of data (20-100kb), then discarded. This data can be reduced to a couple of hundred kb or ...