Collaborate Disseminate
There are several plain text and encrypted text like:
Plain text
Encrypted text
10101004535
7Za9kHM9OH6tKTrtxy86gw==
10860586924
/nwjXW3MYkcATRS5Xyjx/A==
10480090635
/F0D9ePZffTIiH/P8mK+kw==
10861778058
VUtRdsB/qYOUflYzeF3G6A=… Continue reading Relation between plain text and encrypted in URL [duplicate]
Learn about passphrases and understand how you can use these strong yet memorable phrases to safeguard your accounts against hackers. Continue reading What Is a Passphrase? Examples, Types & Best Practices
I remember having read a blog post or a forum post, some years ago, about a TrueCrypt user whose Windows machine sometimes, at boot, did not ask for the TC passphrase and decrypted automatically the volume.
It turned out Windows, in some c… Continue reading Windows decrypting TC volume without passphrase?
Let’s assume person A chooses 15 words for a passphrase with an average length of 5. The passphrase meets following conditions.
Word conditions:
The first word is not a valid word and can’t be found in any dictionary. It’s twice the lengt… Continue reading How to analyze the security of a custom passphrase?
Advances in graphics processing technology and AI have slashed the time needed to crack a password using brute force techniques, says Hive Systems. Continue reading How an 8-character password could be cracked in just a few minutes
In an openssh-server login to a GNU/Linux machine
to use a private ssh key encrypted with an N-characters passphrase, then sshd_config:
PasswordAuthentication no
PubkeyAuthentication yes
is it equivalent to use a login with a password tha… Continue reading ssh server encrypted key vs password login [duplicate]
As I understand from reading another question here, SRAM may be more dangerous than traditional volatile RAM in terms of storing passwords and other sensitive information.
I know that when a computer is shut down, any data in the RAM (if i… Continue reading Static RAM: Detecting presence and wiping?
I understand that nowadays passwords are not stored in plaintext, only as password + salt and hashed (minimum). But I haven’t found any exact confirmation that gpg does NOT store (cache, place in RAM) the passphrase in plaintext.
And if a … Continue reading GPG passphrase in the cache as a hash?
When users are entering a new passphrase somewhere, it’s helpful to provide feedback on the number of characters received by the system.
In a user experience (UX) test I just ran, my user created a passphrase in her password manager, and t… Continue reading Is it insecure to display the number of characters when users enter a new passphrase?
If I am not wrong, both private key and public key are the same since communication is possible only if both keys are matching. So, why we should only keep the private key secret, why not public key? When I generate a key by ssh-keygen com… Continue reading Why should we only keep the private key secret, why not the public key?