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Asymmetrical scheme: insecurity concerns of saving a hash of a hash of a password
please verify or explain how to do this properly.
I'm letting a user create keys from the client through a secure server.
I ask the user for a password on the client, then send the hashed password to ...
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Public key cryptography for logins
This is a question sparked purely by curiosity, wanting to understand a little more about cryptography and authentication. Thanks in advance to anybody taking their time to answer.
Instead of salting ...
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Zencash uses your passphrase to identify AND unlock a wallet - how is this secure?
When looking into Zencash I stumbled into myzenwallet.io (by the Zencash creators), which gives you the option to enter a passphrase to generate a wallet (seems normal), but then after creating your ...
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securing the keystore
When generating a public-private key pair you have the option to secure the keystore with a password.
where is that password stored, is it a hashed version that is stored and if that is so which ...
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Storing passphrase and encrypted private key
I have to protect a key pair with a passphrase and to store these information someway in a table. I read that I can protect the key pair (specifically, the private one) using a digest of the ...
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Salting Hash stored on RFID tag?
In my application, I am trying to prevent counterfeit widgets from being used on our gadgets; think HP ink-cartridges. I will be doing such with UHF RFID tags embedded in the widgets.
Unfortunately, ...
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