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How to store IV and key temporarily but securely

I am using .NET 4.0 to develop a Windows service that will temporarily store encrypted data in a database. The data will be encrypted when it is inserted, then decrypted, processed, and deleted once ...
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Creating a Private Key using Human Intervention

In a hypothetical system, lets say that a design requirement is that people who snoop around the database of a web application (sysadmin gone rogue, or what have you), do not have access to the plain ...
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What useful things can I do with the html5 “keygen” element?

There's a new* keygen element in the html5 spec. It's supported in major browsers excepting Internet Explorer and Safari. Here's what it looks like: <form action="processkey.cgi" method="post" ...
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Is there a common name for a software defect that leads to unexpected transfer of secret over the wire?

Suppose in a C++ program I use a memory region for temporarily storing an encryption key and don't overwrite that region afterwards. Then my program wants to send a data packet over the network. Due ...
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Where do I securely store the key for a system where the source is visible?

I have a customer with an Access database (ugh!) in which credit cards are stored in plaintext (yikes!), so amongst other changes I'm doing in the app, I'm applying some encryption in there. I've ...
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how to secure Android Market public key

Android's security manual says that it is not safe to keep market public key just as a string and it should be hidden/encoded somehow. I am new to android Can somebody please provide me with example ...
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How can I export my private key from a Java Keytool keystore?

I would like to export my private key from a Java Keytool keystore, so I can use it with openssl. How can I do that?
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Encrypting a fixed format message with commands and transmitting over the internet

Linked to: Encrypting a fixed format message? I need to communicate from Site A, a set of information that will be presented to users of Site A, which when they choose to submit, should travel to my ...
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Should one sign and encrypt using the same key? The Azure Training Labs are taking this approach

I'm taking the Azure lab LoadBalancing with WCF and recognise what I have been told is bad from a security perspective, but am not sure if it applies here. Can someone look at this code and tell me ...
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Generating one-time tokens from API-key?

I have a web-site for which I'm building a Drupal module that allows the users of that Drupal site to navigate to my web-site directly from the Drupal site. I intend to distribute secret API-keys to ...
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How can I enumerate all the saved RSA keys in the Microsoft CSP?

I have an application that is creating several keys and storing them in various stores (in this case the Machine store). How can I enumerate all the keys on a given Windows system? ...
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How do I use C# to encrypt/decrypt data where the private key is on a smartcard, hardware security module, TPM chip etc

Is anyone aware of a C# code sample to interact with smartcard, hardware security module, TPM chips (etc), that will allow me to encrypt and decrypt data? My goal is to allow my application to ...
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Storing private asymmetric key in application binary?

I would like to give a daemon-style process (i.e. no user interaction) access to a shared secret key so that it can access a shared, encrypted data file. User applications accessing the same encrypted ...
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Database Encryption Security

I am encrypting and decrypting my database data from my web applications API. If my web server is compromised, what is to keep someone from using that same method to retrieve the data? For example, ...