Archive for the ‘web’ tag
Unsecure password practices
Dansnetwork has a short an simple article explaining the simplest way of securing user passwords on the web. If you are new to authorization on the web, this article will give you a quick introduction to hashing methods and what not to do when dealing with authorization information.
URL: http://blog.dansnetwork.com/2008/07/15/unsafe-password-storage-practices/
Still this article is a bit to basic, since it does not discuss rainbow table attacks, which could with ease break most of the passwords. My previous article discuss how to avoid rainbow table attacks.
Google doctype
Yesterday Google released their internal documentation of html, css and javascript. This is a brilliant resource for us web developers.
URL: http://code.google.com/docreader/#p(doctype)s(doctype)t(Welcome)