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Is it a good idea to have a "master" password?

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Antoine Pinsard

Though I do have a good memory of passwords, it is quite impossible to have one password per application. Yet, it should be… My current way to deal with passwords is to have five passwords and to choose one of them accordin… Continue reading Is it a good idea to have a "master" password?→

Is my developer’s home-brew password security right or wrong, and why?

Posted on December 18, 2012 by nallenscott

A developer, let’s call him ‘Dave’, insists on using home-brew scripts for password security. See Dave’s proposal below.

His team spent months adopting an industry standard protocol using Bcrypt. The software and methods in that protocol… Continue reading Is my developer’s home-brew password security right or wrong, and why?→