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Secure Offline Login and Data Encryption with PBKDF2 and AES-256

I'm working on a project that requires offline functionality, including offline login and secure data manipulation. I'd appreciate feedback on my chosen approach and best practices for secure design. ...
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Storing sensitive data in Local Storage with encryption?

I have a notes app that's offline-first and syncs with remote database when online. Currently, when a user creates a note, I'm encrypting it with AES. I ask the user to enter their decryption ...
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Offline downloading: Can the website owner know that I’ve saved the page as webarchive while I’m not connected to the internet?

I noticed I can save a webpage as .webarchive file from my iPhone Safari while I’m offline. Basically what I did was to open the website, log in, go to the specific page, then when it’s finished ...
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Best practice to encrypt data on smartphone

What is best practice for the encryption of offline application data? I have an application where multiple users can log in. The user gets data from an internet API, where the user authenticates. I ...
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What are the security best practices to implement offline login of android apps?

My client has an android application requirement. The users of the application are workers who might have to work at places where internet connectivity is unavailable. So an offline login feature is ...
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How secure is R and RStudio?

I work at a clinic where we need to pseudonymize patient data. I wrote a small app for this using R (RStudio). R will be installed on computers with access to internet but my idea is to use R offline, ...
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How to show someone that offline Windows app I'll send is not malicious?

I want to send someone an offline app (but would be streamed online by other app like OBS) to use, while wanting to show him that his PC won't be infected (or similar) by that app. App will rely on ...
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How to verify OTP codes offline?

I have a use case to generate one time codes, and need to, in some cases, verify them offline. A use case: On arriving at customers door, the delivery agent needs to verify that they dropped off a ...
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How to uses FIDO2 hmac-secret extension for offline authentication? [closed]

How hmac-secret extension defined in the CTAP2 Specification is used to help implement offline authentication with an authenticator. Is there any other specification that says how to do this? From the ...
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Standard Protocols or secure mechanism to authenticate users offline

We have a use case wherein a mobile app that can be used by multiple users on the same device needs to authenticate the users in some offline scenarios. We were using Password grant as in OAuth2 to ...
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Debating between architecture options for offline updating of Linux machines in a vertically segregated network

My coworker and I are discussing the pros/cons between two potential architecture options, and I would like to gather feedback on which option is better and why. First, a description of the ...
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General security of offline databases (like SQLite)

I'm writing a small task management program in Java (not for mobile devices btw), and part of it was kind of a 'data service' to encapsulate and reuse database related code - such as connecting to ...
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Sign a document as created with an authorized software build

I'm creating some software that essentially enforces a specific process for creating specific documents, which protects them from being challenged later. Afterwards, the file is signed with the user'...
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