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Why are certificates limited in time?
Awarded May 21 at 11:30
How X509 Certificates are used for Encryption
Awarded May 17 at 11:10
How to apply a pepper correctly to bcrypt?
Awarded Apr 8 at 21:20
https security - should password be hashed server-side or client-side?
Awarded Feb 20 at 0:30
Calculating password entropy?
Awarded Jan 31 at 9:50
What alternatives are there to the existing Certificate Authority system for SSL?
Awarded Jan 23 at 10:35
Why encrypt data in memory?
Awarded Jan 5 at 10:30
Password and Generated number - How does it work?
Awarded Dec 29 '18 at 0:20
Poodle - possible to protocol downgrade if SSLv3 is disabled but still have SSLv3 ciphers enabled?
Awarded Dec 28 '18 at 15:00
Why is GPG file encryption so much slower than other AES implementations?
Awarded Dec 23 '18 at 16:55
Recommended options for LUKS (cryptsetup)
Awarded Dec 5 '18 at 7:15
In SSL server handshake, does server also send CA certificate
Awarded Nov 8 '18 at 16:25
Why doesn't Linux randomize the address of the executable code segment?
Awarded Oct 29 '18 at 2:40
Is it compulsory to have https on e-commerce site?
Awarded Sep 11 '18 at 14:00
Can my company see what HTTPS sites I went to?
Awarded Aug 29 '18 at 6:05
SSL3 error when requesting connection using TLS 1.2
Awarded Jun 14 '18 at 14:25
What is the difference between ATA Secure Erase and Security Erase? How can I ensure they worked?
Awarded May 20 '18 at 11:12
Stack Overflows - Defeating Canaries, ASLR, DEP, NX
Awarded Apr 30 '18 at 16:16
Designing a cryptographic file-sharing protocol
Awarded Apr 24 '18 at 11:21
License key / Serial number generator and checker
Awarded Apr 20 '18 at 15:08
How big should salt be?
Awarded Apr 13 '18 at 12:37
Is it secure to transfer an RSA public key by email?
Awarded Apr 11 '18 at 20:42
When to use HMAC alongside AES?
Awarded Mar 27 '18 at 19:11
How is password stolen over non-SSL connection?
Awarded Mar 20 '18 at 21:46
Which properties of a X.509 certificate should be critical and which not?
Awarded Mar 16 '18 at 21:20
What are the differences between the arcfour, arcfour128 and arcfour256 ciphers in OpenSSH?
Awarded Mar 12 '18 at 11:35
Connect through two VPN clients
Awarded Mar 9 '18 at 15:02
Who is the creator of the CIA triad?
Awarded Feb 25 '18 at 1:57
What are the differences between MD5, SHA and RSA?
Awarded Feb 17 '18 at 20:00
SSL root certificate optional?
Awarded Jan 31 '18 at 2:49
Salted hashes vs HMAC?
Awarded Dec 19 '17 at 0:36
What is the difference between authenticity and non-repudiation?
Awarded Aug 22 '17 at 14:45
Which key usages are required by each key exchange method?
Awarded Aug 8 '17 at 15:10
Choosing a session ID algorithm for a client-server relationship
Awarded Jul 29 '17 at 21:41
Diffie-Hellman and its TLS/SSL usage
Awarded Jul 6 '17 at 23:50
What is the point of hashing passwords?
Awarded Jul 5 '17 at 11:39
Relationship between RSA, Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, PKI and X.509?
Awarded Jul 1 '17 at 4:39
What specific padding weakness does OAEP address in RSA?
Awarded Jun 26 '17 at 14:03
How can I prove this site has a huge security weakness?
Awarded Jun 4 '17 at 18:28
Encrypting using AES-256, can I use 256 bits IV?
Awarded May 30 '17 at 18:22
Is MD5 considered insecure?
Awarded Mar 22 '17 at 16:53
New PGP key: RSA/RSA or DSA/Elgamal?
Awarded Mar 13 '17 at 0:29
Forced into using a static IV (AES)
Awarded Mar 10 '17 at 15:51
What is the specific reason to prefer bcrypt or PBKDF2 over SHA256-crypt in password hashes?
Awarded Mar 1 '17 at 13:00
Does any technology prevent a CA unilaterally revoking a certificate?
Awarded Feb 22 '17 at 13:15
Should sensitive data ever be passed in the query string?
Awarded Feb 12 '17 at 20:46
Whats the difference between MAC vs hash
Awarded Jan 5 '17 at 2:57
What are the security issues with “eval()” in JavaScript?
Awarded Nov 29 '16 at 14:20
Is HTTPS and Basic Authentication secure enough for banking webservices (RESTful)?
Awarded Oct 22 '16 at 15:03
PGP - Why have separate encryption subkey
Awarded Sep 28 '16 at 20:11
RSA maximum bytes to encrypt, comparison to AES in terms of security?
Awarded Sep 27 '16 at 17:57
Why do we ask for a user's existing password when changing their password?
Awarded Sep 14 '16 at 17:51
How does OCSP stapling work?
Awarded Aug 25 '16 at 11:54
Demystifying Web Authentication (Stateless Session Cookies)
Awarded Jul 21 '16 at 11:47
Are GUIDs safe for one-time tokens?
Awarded Jul 18 '16 at 21:01
Asymmetric vs Symmetric Encryption
Awarded Jul 14 '16 at 1:07
HMAC - Why not HMAC for password storage?
Awarded Jul 1 '16 at 13:50
How does hashing work?
Awarded Jun 25 '16 at 6:12
How can the content of a file refer to its own MD5?
Awarded Jun 23 '16 at 21:15
Which SSL/TLS ciphers can be considered secure?
Awarded Jun 22 '16 at 8:27
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