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vikstrous4

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  1. comment
    Comment #5311114

    When cracking passwords attackers don't just use brute force. The most effective attacks are ones that exploit human patterns such as leet replacements, capital first letter, punct…

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    Comment #4669454

    nowjs has no concept of security.

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    Comment #4667039

    It's not possible. What's possible is using a browser extension to verify some of the essential javascript and use that javascript to do further verification.

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    Comment #4667037

    What I meant by that is that a brute force offline attack will always succeed if your password is easily guessable regardless of what hashing or password verification protocols are…

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    Comment #4666861

    I also have doubts about the effectiveness of their security, so I'd like to challenge that part of the statement too.

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    Comment #4666840

    I know these guys have good intentions, but they seem confused about the guarantees that SRP provides. It does allow the server to verify the user's password without receiving it, …

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    Comment #3777681

    > Download the nginx secure key to verify the package > >cd /tmp/ >wget http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key Verify a package with a key you got over http? Am I the only one who…