passwords

This is a very strange issue that is similar to a few other people issue that has been going on for a while with MAMP. I recently upgraded to MAMP2 and followed the instruction for the new phpMyAdmin and it work for a while but recently whenever I try to connect to MySQL I always get this error: Error: Could not connect to MySQL server! /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) when trying to connect So I changed the password to the correct one and changed all the files as per advised on this forum topic: http:/

How can I encrypt and decrypt a password in Google app engine without using third party libraries? Any examples? If you care about your users' security, you're going to have to use a third-party library of some sort, because the only way you should be storing passwords is securely hashed with PBKDF2, SCrypt, or BCrypt - for instance, using this module , which you can easily add to your application. Note that you should never encrypt passwords (and thus, never decrypt them) - instead, algorithms like PBKDF2 use hashing so that you can check if a password is valid, but never recover the original

All, Sorry in advance - I'm a novice in most of the topics below (SQL, ASP). Anyway... I've got a pretty simple web app that requires users to log in with a user name and password. The front end creates a salted SHA1 hash of the password, and posts it (along with the user's name) to an ASP page. That ASP page takes the data, calls a stored procedure in the SQL Server database, and passes the users name and hashed password; the stored procedure writes the info to the 'users' table. The password column's type in the table is varbinary. As far as I can tell, when the ASP gets the password

I have an existing, non-framework-based PHP/MySQL website. It has a simple security model, with a users table with usernames and hashed (MD5) passwords. I'm currently working on "version 2" of this site, this time using Symfony, with Doctrine. The new version is working fine, and I'm using the sfDoctrineGuard plugin for my user management. I'd like to migrate my existing users into the new app with the minimum of fuss, retaining their existing usernames and passwords. My main problem, though, is that I'd like to change the password hash I'm using. The current site uses unsalted MD5 hashes of

I'm working on a library to make quick access to KeepassX database files easier for power users. Right now the application is so short-lived in memory that security around the unencrypted KeePass database is not a huge concern. However, I'd like to add the ability to hold the database unlocked for a period of time in the background, similar to the way the KeepassX GUI does. This would allow immediate query of passwords without being prompted for the master password. This means there would be sort of daemon process that holds the database in memory and communicates with a client. It seems that