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| | Passwords should be set, not sent - and other things I thought about when someone talked about password-emailing as a natural part of the user registration. I'm no security expert, but that's a big n...
| | dusted.codes
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| | SHA-256 is not a secure password hashing algorithm
| | pboyd.io
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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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