Top "Encryption" questions

Encryption is the process of transforming information (called plaintext) into an unreadable form (called ciphertext) using an encryption algorithm combined with a parameter (called an encryption key).

How to Secure Android Shared Preferences?

The common location where SharedPreferences are stored in Android apps is: /data/data/<package name>/shared_prefs/<…

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What's the purpose of Django setting ‘SECRET_KEY’?

I did a few google searches and checked out the docs ( https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#secret-key ), …

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How to pick an appropriate IV (Initialization Vector) for AES/CTR/NoPadding?

I would like to encrypt the cookies that are written by a webapp and I would like to keep the …

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What are the differences between .pem, .cer and .der?

What are the differences between .pem, .cer and .der? As far as I know, .cer contains public key. Are there …

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Decode a PHP encoded with 'zend guard'

We have a website maintained by an old employee and it appears it's encoded by Zend Guard including all backups. …

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C# How to simply encrypt a text file with a PGP Public Key?

I've researched a bit about how to achieve what I said in the question and found several APIs but most …

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How to encrypt HTML source code?

Possible Duplicate: How to encrypt HTML source code output using PHP I built my static website and I am finished …

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Python's safest method to store and retrieve passwords from a database

Looking to store usernames and passwords in a database, and am wondering what the safest way to do so is. …

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How to decrypt simple XOR encryption

I found the following XOR encryption function on the internet: void xor_encrypt(char *key, char *string) { int i, string_…

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SHA1 VS RSA: what's the difference between them?

What are the differences between SHA1 and RSA? Are they just different algorithms or are they fundamentally (i.e. used …

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