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Encryption is the process of transforming plaintext using a cipher to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing the key.

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How would you store a 4 digit pin code securely in the database?

I'm familiar with password hashing, using salts, bcrypt etc. But it doesn't seem like this would work to store a 4 digit pin code since the attacker could try all 10,000 combinations quite quickly. …
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Any risk in using the same salt for several hashes on a user?

Right now I'm storing a salt and password_hash on the users table (pretty standard stuff). The need arose to get a secure hash of another field for a user. Is there any risk in reusing the same salt …
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Protecting emails in your database

Unlike the password, we'd need to get the original email out periodically (so a two way encryption would probably be necessary) but we also don't want emails sitting around in the clear, or accessible …
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