Encrypt Password in Configuration Files?

A simple way of doing this is to use Password Based Encryption in Java. This allows you to encrypt and decrypt a text by using a password. This basically means initializing a javax.crypto.Cipher with algorithm “AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding” and getting a key from javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory with the “PBKDF2WithHmacSHA512” algorithm. Here is a code example (updated to replace the … Read more

SecurityError: Blocked a frame with origin from accessing a cross-origin frame

Same-origin policy You can’t access an <iframe> with different origin using JavaScript, it would be a huge security flaw if you could do it. For the same-origin policy browsers block scripts trying to access a frame with a different origin. Origin is considered different if at least one of the following parts of the address isn’t maintained: protocol://hostname:port/… Protocol, hostname and … Read more

PHP $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] vs. $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’], am I understanding the man pages correctly?

That’s probably everyone’s first thought. But it’s a little bit more difficult. See Chris Shiflett’s article SERVER_NAME Versus HTTP_HOST. It seems that there is no silver bullet. Only when you force Apache to use the canonical name you will always get the right server name with SERVER_NAME. So you either go with that or you check the host name against a white … Read more

C – The %x format specifier

Break-down: 8 says that you want to show 8 digits 0 that you want to prefix with 0‘s instead of just blank spaces x that you want to print in lower-case hexadecimal. Quick example (thanks to Grijesh Chauhan): Output: Also see http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/printf/ for reference.

Is it possible to decrypt SHA1

SHA1 is a cryptographic hash function, so the intention of the design was to avoid what you are trying to do. However, breaking a SHA1 hash is technically possible. You can do so by just trying to guess what was hashed. This brute-force approach is of course not efficient, but that’s pretty much the only way. So to … Read more