Verification of Password without Storing Hash – Security Considerations

Question:
I am working on a password-based file encryption and decryption system in Python using the PBKDF2 key derivation function and Fernet encryption. I have a specific requirement: I want to verify a user’s password without storing th… Continue reading Verification of Password without Storing Hash – Security Considerations

How to properly migrate authentication cookies to using a new encryption scheme on a website while being backwards compatible?

When a user logs in with their email/password combo and gets authenticated to our website, the backend sends the web browser an encrypted cookie based off of their memberId with us. While this encrypted cookie has not expired, the web bro… Continue reading How to properly migrate authentication cookies to using a new encryption scheme on a website while being backwards compatible?

Need help to decrypt a text file & want to know the type used to encrypt [closed]

Please help to decrypt the below message:
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Lwþ [²Õ´ÿ&YˆcZ‡N¡pke„véXsª-ì—ž1@{R… Continue reading Need help to decrypt a text file & want to know the type used to encrypt [closed]

What are password encryption schemes that result in variable length common in MySQL and PHP?

I have stumbled across passwords on a MySQL database behind a PHP webapp. Here are some examples.
753a524d56b48d825328ce27
789e0ad30d15
7ba0868c23e0a2
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44d2059e642f9733… Continue reading What are password encryption schemes that result in variable length common in MySQL and PHP?

Post Exploitation in Oracle web logic server 10.35 (Oracle Linux Server 3.8)

Web Server : Oracle WebLogic 10.35
Machine : Oracle Linux Server 3.8
I was able to partially exploit this CVE. I can execute any command on server using HTTP request and redirecting its output to a file i.e
cat /etc/passwd > /tmp/succes… Continue reading Post Exploitation in Oracle web logic server 10.35 (Oracle Linux Server 3.8)