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  2. bcrypt - Wikipedia

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    Description. The input to the bcrypt function is the password string (up to 72 bytes), a numeric cost, and a 16-byte (128-bit) salt value. The salt is typically a random value. The bcrypt function uses these inputs to compute a 24-byte (192-bit) hash. The final output of the bcrypt function is a string of the form:

  3. Blowfish (cipher) - Wikipedia

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    Blowfish is a symmetric-key block cipher, designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier and included in many cipher suites and encryption products. Blowfish provides a good encryption rate in software, and no effective cryptanalysis of it has been found to date for smaller files. It is recommended Blowfish should not be used to encrypt files larger than ...

  4. Cryptographic hash function - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A cryptographic hash function ( CHF) is a hash algorithm (a map of an arbitrary binary string to a binary string with a fixed size of bits) that has special properties desirable for a cryptographic application: [1] the probability of a particular. n {\displaystyle n} -bit output result ( hash value) for a random input string ("message") is.

  5. passwd - Wikipedia

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    passwd is a command on Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and most Unix-like operating systems used to change a user's password. The password entered by the user is run through a key derivation function to create a hashed version of the new password, which is saved. Only the hashed version is stored; the entered password is not saved for security reasons.

  6. Encryption - Wikipedia

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    Encryption. A simple illustration of public-key cryptography, one of the most widely used forms of encryption. In cryptography, encryption is the process of encoding information. This process converts the original representation of the information, known as plaintext, into an alternative form known as ciphertext.

  7. Database encryption - Wikipedia

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    Database encryption. Database encryption can generally be defined as a process that uses an algorithm to transform data stored in a database into "cipher text" that is incomprehensible without first being decrypted. [1] It can therefore be said that the purpose of database encryption is to protect the data stored in a database from being ...

  8. Basic access authentication - Wikipedia

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    In the context of an HTTP transaction, basic access authentication is a method for an HTTP user agent (e.g. a web browser) to provide a user name and password when making a request. In basic HTTP authentication, a request contains a header field in the form of Authorization: Basic <credentials>, where <credentials> is the Base64 encoding of ID ...

  9. Password Safe - Wikipedia

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    File encryption. Password Safe can encrypt any file using a key derived from a passphrase provided by the user through the command-line interface. Password generator. The software features a built-in password generator that generates random passwords. The user may also designate parameters for password generation (length, character set, etc ...