It’s becoming more and more common for websites to provide the capability of having two factor authentication as part of you login process. Google, GitHub, Hotmail and Dropbox just to name a few of the organisations that have embraced two factor authentication and provided it as an optional security measure. In this article I will …
If you’re developing a website where there should only be a couple of publicly accessible pages in ASP.NET MVC, then at first you may try to go through all your controllers decorating them with the AuthorizeAttribute. Although you will still want to allow anonymous users access to the login page otherwise anonymous users can never …
When this is posted I shall be travelling around Europe (I’ve set up delayed publish), while I’m away I will be getting my fix of the Internet through public wireless networks and networks in hostels. As any security conscious person will know public wireless networks are dangerous territory where unless your connections are secured it …
I’ve spoken before in some of my other blog posts (some of which haven’t been finished/published yet) about password storage strategies and how it is important to make sure that you choose the right storage strategy. One of my friends pointed out that while it should be a no-brainer not to store passwords plain text …
We are regularly asked when registering for a website to make sure that we use a secure password, over a certain number of characters, different character sets etc. but once we have submitted our password how do we know that their password storage strategy is adequate? Yesterday I realised that I had forgotten my password …
I recently set up a wireless network in my new flat with a super duper awesomely strong password, set up my laptop to connect to the wireless and then promptly forgot to actually write down what the wireless password was. Thankfully some genius had already experienced this problem and had created an application to retrieve …
This class implements the IHasher interface that you can find here. ”’ ”’ SHA512 hash class from Satal Keto’s library ”’ https://samjenkins.com ”’ Version 1.0.0.1 ”’ Imports System.IO Imports System.Security.Cryptography Namespace Security.Hash Public Class SHA512Hash Implements IHasher Public Function hashOfFile(ByVal fileToHash As String) As String Implements IHasher.hashOfFile Dim rdr As FileStream …
This class implements the IHasher interface that you can find here. ”’ ”’ SHA384 hash class from Satal Keto’s library ”’ https://samjenkins.com ”’ Version 1.0.0.1 ”’ Imports System.IO Imports System.Security.Cryptography Namespace Security.Hash Public Class SHA384Hash Implements IHasher Public Function hashOfFile(ByVal fileToHash As String) As String Implements IHasher.hashOfFile Dim rdr As FileStream …
This class implements the IHasher interface that you can find here. ”’ ”’ SHA256 hash class from Satal Keto’s library ”’ https://samjenkins.com ”’ Version 1.0.0.1 ”’ Imports System.IO Imports System.Security.Cryptography Namespace Security.Hash Public Class SHA256Hash Implements IHasher Public Function hashOfFile(ByVal fileToHash As String) As String Implements IHasher.hashOfFile Dim rdr As FileStream …
This class implements the IHasher interface that you can find here. ”’ ”’ SHA1 hash class from Satal Keto’s library ”’ https://samjenkins.com ”’ Version 1.0.0.1 ”’ Imports System.IO Imports System.Security.Cryptography Namespace Security.Hash Public Class SHA1Hash Implements IHasher Public Function hashOfFile(ByVal fileToHash As String) As String Implements IHasher.hashOfFile Dim rdr As FileStream …
