Top "Password-protection" questions

Password protection is used to ensure only authorized users (i.e. those who know the password) can access or modify certain information.

Password protect Open XML Wordprocessing Document

I need to add basic password protection to an Open XML Wordprocessing document. I can either use the COM interface, …

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How do I measure the strength of a password?

I was looking for an effective algorithm that can give me an accurate idea of how strong a password is. …

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So my Excel-VBA project password can easily be cracked... What are other options?

Now that I know that there is an easy workaround to the standard way of locking and password-protecting VBA code, …

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Secure way to store password in Windows

I'm trying to protect a local database that contains sensitive info (similar to this question, only for delphi 2010) I'm using …

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How to store private encrypted user data in the database, but make them available to other chosen users?

firstly, I apologize if my question sounds little confusing, I will try my best to describe my scenario as detailed …

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How can I remove the printing protection from password-protected PDF files?

How can I remove the printing protection from password-protected PDF files?

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Remove "Reserved" password from PowerPoint 2013

I have a PowerPoint file created in Microsoft Office 365 (2013), and we password protected it, the only thing is now I'm …

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Keychain: Item reported as errSecItemNotFound, but receive errSecDuplicateItem on addition

This issue has been bugging me for a while, and I hope someone has insight as to the cause of …

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Password storage in source control

We store all our application and db passwords in plain text in source control. We do this as our build/…

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increasing time delay for login to stop bruteforcing, good idea?

I have set up my db to log every failed login attempt. I thought I would multiply the number of …

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