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| bio | website | security.stackexchange.com |
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| age | 30 | |
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What is the difference between Key Escrow and a Recovery Agent? Strictly speaking, the "Key Escrow" isn't just something that's implemented for legal reasons. It could just be the way the company chose to implement their recovery process. Other than that, the distinction between Escrow vs. Agent is pretty accurate here. |
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May 14 |
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Source where you can find if a CVE has a patch or not The only reliable source for stating whether or not there is a patch, is the vendor of the affected software - and they don't always make it easy to search by CVE. There are other sites that try to aggregate this data, but I wouldn't rely upon them to definitively state that there isn't a patch. |
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May 9 |
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Intel How Strong is Your Password page, good advice? @AviD & Adnan It would at least help assure you that the claims regarding the site's operation are made by a relatively trustworthy source. As it is now, we cannot have any confidence that the site we're viewing is being served to us by Intel. Joe User isn't savvy enough to inspect the JavaScript, but most are at least a little familiar with how to check for SSL indicators in their browser. SSL is not (just) about encryption. Whether they should be punching their passwords in there at all or not is a bit of a different issue. |
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May 8 |
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Is salting a hash really as secure as common knowledge implies? @Gilles What I meant to say then is that it needs to be unique for each user, not for particular password strings. |
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May 8 |
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Is salting a hash really as secure as common knowledge implies? Suggestion: Change "it needs to be unique" to "it needs to be unique for each password". |
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May 2 |
reviewed | Close Example of malware that spreads via USB? |
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May 2 |
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High-frequency noise deterrents I noticed the side-note about not knowing the effect on animals. I presume animals with higher hearing ranges than humans may detect these and perhaps be disturbed. Considering that animals are used in service to the perceptually impaired and other disabled individuals, I'm almost surprised an organization like the ADA hasn't been all over this. Another note: There are other "unintentional radiators" of these noise frequencies. CRTs (thankfully becoming rarer) are perhaps among the most notorious, but some other electronics put out a discernible high-pitch whine when in use. |
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Apr 30 |
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CTRL+ALT+DEL Login - Rationale behind it? Yeah, I'm still a little confused as to why Linux didn't use CTRL+ALT+DEL - Windows had to deal with the same "reboot button" issue, and they did reasonably well. Good additional detail here, though. |
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Apr 30 |
reviewed | Close Create additional database in server using sql injection |
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Apr 30 |
reviewed | Close Web application security standards/certificates |
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Apr 30 |
reviewed | Close How long will it take to crack a 10-15 character winrar password? |
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Apr 30 |
reviewed | Close Asymmetric encryption algorithms |
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Apr 30 |
reviewed | Close Symmetric Key Cryptography vs Public Key Cryptography |
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Apr 30 |
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Can anyone determine what kind of encryption this is? This doesn't look like encryption at all. It may be some sort of encoding, and really looks like more of a labeling/naming convention than anything else, but it's almost definitely not anything to do with cryptography whatsoever. |
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Apr 26 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Apr 23 |
awarded | passwords |
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Apr 22 |
answered | Does password-protecting a server's BIOS help in securing sensitive data? |
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Apr 22 |
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“Please Enter Nth Character” without HSM Ok. Normally, I don't care about people not explaining downvotes - I've just given up on that cause. But c'mon! Nobody should be allowed to downvote Little Bear without providing solid justification! |
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Apr 9 |
reviewed | Close Does SSL/TLS (https) hide the urls being accessed |
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Apr 9 |
reviewed | Close how malware is added to android app |
