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Moderator♦ pro tempore on French Language and Usage and Computer Science. I'm also a unix amateur, and a developer with a computer science background and security leanings by trade.
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How secure is using CRAM-MD5 for email authentication, when not using an SSL connection? fgrieu and I ended up covering mostly the same ground. I think this is a valid case for asking similar questions on two different sites with different audiences (even if the answers turn out to be similar in this case), but when you do this, do link the questions to each other, so that potential answerers and readers can see what the other side has already said on the topic. |
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What is the entropy of just 1 Diceware passphrase like my passphrase? @Dick99999 If you knew in which order the passwords are cracked, you would simply pick the last password. If password crackers did process passwords in order then everyone would pick @ @ @ @ @ as the most secure password. It doesn't work that way! Password cracking might prioritize “easy” passwords, but they do not operate in any order that resembles dictionary order. If anything, the passwords may be ordered by their hash — but the hashes would be traversed in a pretty much unguessable order anyway, and in parallel. |
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answered | What is the entropy of just 1 Diceware passphrase like my passphrase? |
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reviewed | Approve suggested edit on internet-explorer tag wiki |
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reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Is Google Chrome a better secured browser? |
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Do I have to harden IE if I'm only using Firefox? edited tags |
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reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Is this a security flaw in Firefox 18.0? |
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How did my homepage get changed in IE? added "ie" tag |
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How can a web application protect IE users when this browser doesn't support HSTS? edited tags |
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Will disabling the Java add-on in IE protect you from Java exploits? edited tags |
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Looking for safe, simple way to store passwords with PHP 5.2.17 If you need concrete help doing this in PHP, read Secure hash and salt for PHP passwords. |
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reviewed | Close Looking for safe, simple way to store passwords with PHP 5.2.17 |
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How secure is using CRAM-MD5 for email authentication, when not using an SSL connection? The crypto and infosec points of view are pretty much the same here as they're based on protocol analysis. There are complementary answers on Cryptography: crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/8391/… |
