Polynomial

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Pentester, ex-developer, security researcher, reverse engineer, electronics tinkerer, internet activist, zombie eradicator, promulgator of useless facts, shrubbery inspector, bacon aficionado, devourer of donuts.

Strengths: Security, Crypto, Win32 API, C#, .NET, PHP, x86 assembly

All answers and comments are encrypted with ROT256-ECB.

Opinions are my own. Advice provided with no warranty.

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443 Answers

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575	How can I explain SQL injection without technical jargon?
212	Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why?
203	How to store salt?
114	Attacking an office printer?
85	Is sending password to user email secure?

32,487 Reputation

+10	How to store salt?
+20	How does SSL work?
+10	Are password-protected ZIP files secure?
+10	How can I explain SQL injection without technical jargon?

51 Questions

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172	How does SSL work?
48	How do you explain the necessity of “nuke it from orbit” to management and users?
26	How can you judge the physical security of a padlock?
26	How does a new SMS message overwrite a previous one?
22	Why shouldn't we roll our own?

310 Tags

853 passwords × 65	242 bcrypt × 5
648 hash × 38	223 web-application × 41
603 sql-injection × 8	220 algorithm × 3
350 encryption × 56	213 ssl × 31
262 salt × 10	184 php × 21

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