I was just going through one of DavidHayden’s articles on Hashing User Passwords. Really I can’t get what he is trying to achieve. Here is his code: private static string CreateSalt(int size) { //Generate a cryptographic random number. RNGCryptoServiceProvider rng = new RNGCryptoServiceProvider(); byte[] buff = new byte[size]; rng.GetBytes(buff); // Return a Base64 string representation … Read more
I need to hash passwords for storage in a database. How can I do this in Java? I was hoping to take the plain text password, add a random salt, then store the salt and the hashed password in the database. Then when a user wanted to log in, I could take their submitted password, … Read more
bCrypt’s javadoc has this code for how to encrypt a password: String pw_hash = BCrypt.hashpw(plain_password, BCrypt.gensalt()); To check whether a plaintext password matches one that has been hashed previously, use the checkpw method: if (BCrypt.checkpw(candidate_password, stored_hash)) System.out.println(“It matches”); else System.out.println(“It does not match”); These code snippets imply to me that the randomly generated salt is … Read more
I am wondering wether the Password Hasher that is default implemented in the UserManager that comes with MVC 5 and ASP.NET Identity Framework, is secure enough? And if so, if you could explain to me how it works? IPasswordHasher interface looks like this: public interface IPasswordHasher { string HashPassword(string password); PasswordVerificationResult VerifyHashedPassword(string hashedPassword, string providedPassword); … Read more
Is there a clever way to let the user switch between hide and view password in an android EditText? A number of PC based apps let the user do this. 35 Answers 35 It is really easy to achieve since the Support Library v24.2.0. What you need to do is just: Add the design library … Read more
When connecting to a network share for which the current user (in my case, a network enabled service user) has no rights, name and password have to be provided. I know how to do this with Win32 functions (the WNet* family from mpr.dll), but would like to do it with .Net (2.0) functionality. What options … Read more
In my application, I have an EditText whose default input type is set to android:inputType=”textPassword” by default. It has a CheckBox to its right, which is when checked, changes the input type of that EditText to NORMAL PLAIN TEXT. Code for that is password.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_VISIBLE_PASSWORD); My problem is, when that CheckBox is unchecked it should again … Read more
I am trying to generate a random password in php. However I am getting all ‘a’s and the return type is of type array and I would like it to be a string. Any ideas on how to correct the code? Thanks. function randomPassword() { $alphabet = “abcdefghijklmnopqrstuwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUWXYZ0123456789”; for ($i = 0; $i < 8; … Read more
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I tried the following code… string pass = “”; Console.Write(“Enter your password: “); ConsoleKeyInfo key; do { key = Console.ReadKey(true); // Backspace Should Not Work if (key.Key != ConsoleKey.Backspace) { pass += key.KeyChar; Console.Write(“*”); } else { Console.Write(“\b”); } } // Stops Receving Keys Once Enter is Pressed while (key.Key != ConsoleKey.Enter); Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine(“The Password … Read more
