“The world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology” has been thoroughly embarrassed in an accident where they left their log files containing user names and passwords open for FTP access to all on the Net for more than a month, according to a DarkReading report. Or, at least, I think they should be ...
Read MoreOftentimes, the first cryptography related question you come across while designing a system is the question of random numbers. We need some random numbers in many places when developing web applications: identifiers, tokens, passwords etc. all need to be somewhat unpredictable. The question is, how unpredictable should they be? In other words, what should be ...
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