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What are the potential security impacts of using CRAM-MD5 for Emails, when not using an SSL connection?
Background: My current server-provider tells me it's no problem to store the passwords in plain-text in the database, saying he has to do so because they use CRAM-MD5 for email authentication. But ...
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Tamper-proofing log files
Problem Overview
I want to securely store log files so the contents are secret, and they can't be modified without detection.
The files will be encrypted using authenticated encryption (AES in GCM ...
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RSA digital signature vs authenticated cipher
I want to provide both confidentiality and integrity for data at rest (many large files stored on disk).
I plan to encrypt the data using AES, which will cover the confidentiality requirement.
So ...
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What do the magic numbers 0x5c and 0x36 in the opad/ipad calc in HMAC do?
Wikipedia lists the following pseudocode for HMAC:
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