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| | Here's a fun list to look through: Dumb Password Rules. Most of the rules seem arbitrary, like only allowing digits, but some hint at deeper problems. For instance, preventing single-quotes. They aren't inserting passwords into a database without a SQL placeholder, right? Nearly every site on that list has a needlessly short maximum password size. If they're storing passwords correctly, there's no need for this. This post will go through a few bad ways to store a password and you can see what I mean....
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| | [AI summary] The post explains how to manage password hashing in PHP using DokuWiki's auth_cryptPassword() and auth_verifyPassword() functions to support multiple algorithms like MD5, SHA1, and crypt while ensuring backward compatibility.
| | blog.ropnop.com
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| | After compromising an OpenNMS server, I recovered salted password hashes. I couldn't find any info online, so I reversed them and wrote a tool to crack them
| | blog.thenewoil.org
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| Password managers are thankfully becoming a mainstream topic. In addition to seeing commercials for certain ones from time to time, it's ...