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Should I use SSL/TLS renegotiation?
Awarded Jul 24 '16 at 2:36
Can I restrict a Certification Authority to signing certain domains only?
Awarded Jul 20 '16 at 3:22
Hash function change
Awarded Jul 18 '16 at 18:08
Why is the server returning 3 SYN + ACK packets during a SYN scan?
Awarded Jul 15 '16 at 15:12
Picking cipher suites for HTTPS
Awarded Jul 1 '16 at 10:31
Do SSL / X.509 certs cover all ports for a host?
Awarded Jun 27 '16 at 13:28
Trying to understand RSA and it's terminology?
Awarded Jun 16 '16 at 7:41
SSH Bad Protocol Version Identification String- What is it?
Awarded Jun 12 '16 at 0:57
How is certificate forgery with cheap CA's prevented?
Awarded Jun 5 '16 at 9:23
Password Managers: encrypted database vs hashing strategy
Awarded Jun 4 '16 at 2:52
Is it safe for GPG to compress all messages prior to encryption by default?
Awarded May 31 '16 at 20:39
Shared Secret, is it a public key or a private key?
Awarded May 31 '16 at 1:17
What damage could be done if a malicious certificate had an identical “Subject Key Identifier”?
Awarded May 20 '16 at 16:08
What are the differences between MD5, SHA and RSA?
Awarded May 16 '16 at 14:33
How to set “Not Before” value to past when creating certificate request
Awarded May 6 '16 at 15:53
What is the difference between double DES and 3-DES?
Awarded May 4 '16 at 16:16
How to store passwords in a text file in USB securely?
Awarded Apr 27 '16 at 22:58
backdoors in hardware (ie. intel/amd cpu) possible?
Awarded Apr 27 '16 at 18:52
Are duplicate SSH server host keys a problem?
Awarded Apr 22 '16 at 23:16
How easy is it to find a password in a huge text file?
Awarded Apr 20 '16 at 21:52
How can I choose a strong password that is easy use on a smartphone?
Awarded Apr 20 '16 at 6:15
Should I change the password of my password manager regularly?
Awarded Apr 19 '16 at 9:27
Reversible password storage obfuscation method for third-party login credentials
Awarded Apr 19 '16 at 7:13
How hard is it to hack into a webmail account with a strong 8 character password?
Awarded Apr 15 '16 at 18:13
Any MITM tool for forcing weak SSL cipher suite?
Awarded Apr 15 '16 at 15:07
Why change password?
Awarded Apr 15 '16 at 9:53
How does storing hash passwords work?
Awarded Apr 13 '16 at 18:34
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Awarded Apr 12 '16 at 21:26
What is the difference between DH and DHE?
Awarded Apr 12 '16 at 8:17
Is it possible for a third party to sniff data off the line to an ISP and determine what the user is doing?
Awarded Apr 9 '16 at 10:19
Do client certificates provide protection against MITM?
Awarded Apr 8 '16 at 5:05
Is my session-less authentication system secure?
Awarded Apr 7 '16 at 20:35
How did the FBI compromise Tor users?
Awarded Mar 31 '16 at 21:44
Why do some sites prevent users from reusing their old passwords?
Awarded Mar 31 '16 at 17:10
How to distribute client certificates without exposing private key?
Awarded Mar 30 '16 at 8:36
Is it possible to reliably derive a key from a biometric fingerprint?
Awarded Mar 26 '16 at 11:08
Is DKIM needed for emails encrypted with OpenPGP?
Awarded Mar 25 '16 at 23:21
The brute-force resistence of bcrypt versus MD5 for password hashing?
Awarded Mar 23 '16 at 3:17
Prevent BEAST attack without RC4 cipher suites
Awarded Mar 22 '16 at 17:17
Verify Login and Encrypt with PBKDF2
Awarded Mar 22 '16 at 7:59
Why do phones have SIM cards?
Awarded Mar 21 '16 at 8:09
Does any technology prevent a CA unilaterally revoking a certificate?
Awarded Mar 17 '16 at 10:25
Should Stack Exchange be more obscure in its systems' structure?
Awarded Mar 15 '16 at 11:26
Compute the AES-encryption key given the plaintext and its ciphertext?
Awarded Mar 15 '16 at 1:28
Why is ECC more vulnerable than RSA in a post-quantum world?
Awarded Mar 14 '16 at 23:12
How long can X.509 certificate chains be?
Awarded Mar 12 '16 at 0:13
When I register on a website, is there a way to know whether or not the site admin will be able to see my password?
Awarded Mar 10 '16 at 15:22
How to determine the good number of PBKDF2 iterations according to technology evolution?
Awarded Mar 10 '16 at 11:53
What is the difference between ATA Secure Erase and Security Erase? How can I ensure they worked?
Awarded Mar 9 '16 at 14:39
If I protected myself from POODLE am I also protected against DROWN
Awarded Mar 2 '16 at 22:17
What could be the order of these ciphers following as first criteria the security and just then the performance?
Awarded Mar 2 '16 at 22:02
What is DROWN and how does it work?
Awarded Mar 1 '16 at 14:18
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Awarded Feb 29 '16 at 1:48
OpenSSH default/preferred ciphers, hash, etc for SSH2
Awarded Feb 25 '16 at 15:51
Why are programs written in C and C++ so frequently vulnerable to overflow attacks?
Awarded Feb 23 '16 at 15:39
Why can't apple simply add the backdoor now and then remove it after the FBI is done?
Awarded Feb 22 '16 at 10:13
Recommended options for LUKS (cryptsetup)
Awarded Feb 21 '16 at 20:53
SSL / TLS Renegotiation Handshakes MiTM Plaintext Data Injection- medium or low risk?
Awarded Feb 19 '16 at 14:24
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Awarded Feb 17 '16 at 15:44
Do I really need all these Certificate Authorities in my browser or in my keychain?
Awarded Feb 14 '16 at 0:09
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