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comment Why standards organizations give so short protection times for 128 bit encryption?
It is worth pointing out that quantum computers don't help much against symmetric encryption. It is primarily asymmetric encryption which is weakened by quantum computing due to the ability to factor large semi-primes.
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answered Does providing OAuth for mobile apps pose a security threat?
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reviewed Close Force clients to use proxy
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answered Store username in cookie for a web site
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answered Becoming a malware analyst?
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answered Storing config securely in a semi trusted shared hosting environment
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comment Secure way to establish PHP database connections
@Artfulrobot If they can't impersonate your scripts, then they can't access the configuration either.
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reviewed Leave Open How to make a site vulnerable to SQLi?
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comment Certificate usage
Can you include some details about your broader goals? This doesn't really seem to have enough information to ensure that the best approach is being taken. What do you mean by a middle ware solution answering certificate and ask credentials for SSO? You don't need anything in particular to make client certificates because they only need to be trusted by the service (or services) they are used to authenticate against. The rest of your question is too vague to answer though.
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comment How to make a site vulnerable to SQLi?
@JacobKudria - In order to prevent SQL Injection, you have to sanitize input to make sure that it isn't an unexpected value. This varies based on the data. If it's a number, you make sure it's only numbers. Regardless you want to make sure that it can't contain any SQL keywords in a way they could be used and preferably want to use parametrized SQL so that even if SQL keywords were present, they wouldn't be executed. There are many ways that you can validate form input and no one solution is perfect in all cases.
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comment Secure way to establish PHP database connections
@artfulrobot - right, but if they can upload their own scripts, then you are sunk no matter what you do as their scripts can impersonate your valid scripts and get the same object. The only alternative would be to do a nested SOAP type service for all the data and have a SOAP based DAL that is isolated from the general web.
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answered How to make a site vulnerable to SQLi?
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reviewed No Action Needed How to make a site vulnerable to SQLi?
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answered Ways to look for changes on a PC
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answered Secure way to establish PHP database connections
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answered If a hacker is on the same Wifi Network as I am, what can he do?
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comment What about AD2P vulnerability?
Any ideas on why this post got downvoted?
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comment Is there a dictionary of visibly similar Unicode characters for Spam processing?
If you are specifically looking for English language filtering, why do you need a dictionary at all. Isn't the presence of non-latin characters evidence of SPAM by itself?
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reviewed Leave Open Considerations for information exchange agreement between governmental agencies
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reviewed Leave Open What are some recommended certifications that do not require industry experience?