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How to take SHA-1 safely for my particular case?
Let me ask about my toy passwords generator program X5 which I want to improve.
X5 uses a secret key and a public key to generate a password.Where any public key is supposed to be known to hackers in ...
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SHA1 usage for passwords, alternatives and advantages?
My application can authenticate via openid and oauth (facebook, twitter, etc) and also with its own authentication system. I previously switched hashing from MD5 to SHA1 and during migration I had to ...
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How can I improve a password generation scheme based on a shared secret and URL?
I currently use the following method to generate a different password on every website I have to login:
password = SHA1 ( mainPassword . domainName . number )
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