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What is the best practice for storing a secret on the cloud?

This post on Securing Java Application Data for Cloud Computing offers a good introduction to using a Java KeyStore for securing encrypted data in the cloud. It neglects, however, to answer the ...
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Encrypting sensitive data in software and storing/decrypting it on a server

I have searched IT Security and Google for something similar to this, but wasn't able to find anything remotely related to what I'm doing. I'm developing software which has 2 parts - a C# program run ...
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AES using derived keys / IVs. Does it introduce a weakness?

I'm looking for an efficient way to encrypt multiple fields in a database with AES using a single global key, used throughout a large web application. Obviously in order to re-use this key, a unique ...
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Storing License Keys

I'm creating an application which generates licenses key and stores this in a database (the licenses are checked on-line). I don't wish to store these license unhashed - in case the database is ...
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How to use DPAPI under load balance environment

DPAPI can be used to encrypt the secret data. We intend to use it in our web app to encrypt some data and store the encrypted data in database. When needed we decrypt the data and present them on ...
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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 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 ...
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Web Application encryption key management

In a nutshell, let's consider a web application which stores some information in a database as encrypted data. While I'm purposely trying to keep this some what generic, here are some assumptions: ...
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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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Encrypting a fixed format message?

I'm planning to send across TWO pieces of information over the internet from machine A A site identifier which will be like: $SiteName = "EXAMPLE" (in plaintext) Encoded text which will be like: ...
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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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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, ...