Dilshan Edirisuriya SCJP1.4, SCWCD1.4, SCBCD 5
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of the idea. John Ciardi
Pat Farrell: in Criptography
The standard approach to securing passwords/passphrases is to put them through a one way hash, say MD5 or SHA1, and store the resulting hash. You then tell users that you can not tell them the old password, just give them a new one.
"The differential equations that describe dynamic interactions of power generators are similar to that of the gravitational interplay among celestial bodies, which is chaotic in nature."
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of the idea. John Ciardi
"The differential equations that describe dynamic interactions of power generators are similar to that of the gravitational interplay among celestial bodies, which is chaotic in nature."
Originally posted by Stan James:
This just triggered a memory that made me smile ... a vendor package encrypted passwords with a simple XOR. Our database folks stared at these so long they eventually learned to READ the encrypted passwords. (Since I sight read vocal music on sax all the time, this makes perfect sense.) You could call them up to recover a lost password. Security, ha!
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