do your users have to log into your website to use it? if you also are making use of a password authentication scheme, you could piggy back on top of that. Use the login password for your site as a cipherkey in a symmetric key cipher to encrypt the api password. then you need only … Read more
This has grown to my general brain dump of best practices for working with passwords in PHP/MySQL. The ideas presented here are generally not my own, but the best of what I’ve found to date. Ensure you are using SSL for all operations involving user information. All pages that involve these forms should check they … Read more
There is no way to send a password securely that the user can verify without SSL. Sure, you can write some JavaScript that will make a password secure for over-the-wire transmission through hashing or public-key-encryption. But how can the user be sure that the JavaScript itself has not been tampered with by a man-in-the-middle before … Read more
You can create Automation Add In. An Automation Add In provides several advantages Execution Speed : An Automation Add In written in VB6 is compiled to native machine code which runs much faster than the interpreted VBA languange. Security : Unlike an XLA add in, you never distribute the source code to the end users. … Read more
Not exactly the most robust password protection here, so please don’t use this to protect credit card numbers or something very important. Simply drop all of the following code into a file called (secure.php), change the user and pass from “admin” to whatever you want. Then right under those lines where it says include(“secure.html”), simply … Read more
Another way to remove VBA project password is; Open xls file with a hex editor. (ie. Hex Edit http://www.hexedit.com/) Search for DPB Replace DPB to DPx Save file. Open file in Excel. Click “Yes” if you get any message box. Set new password from VBA Project Properties. Close and open again file, then type your … Read more
You can’t do it without reapplying UserInterfaceOnly:=True after reopening the workbook. Taken from Excel’s Vb protect method reference: If you apply this method with the UserInterfaceOnly argument set to true and then save the workbook, the entire worksheet (not just the interface) will be fully protected when you reopen the workbook. To re-enable the user … Read more
> However, I cannot find anything in the JavaFX API that let me do that? The PasswordField component does not display masked text by default. However you can use PasswordField with TextField and toggle masked/unmasked text using these components respectively. Where the unmasked text is shown by TextField, as in example demo below. > I … Read more
The problem is that R does not have functions to control the terminal it is running in (something like Rncurses); probably this is due to portability issues. Some time ago I was struggling with the same problem and I ended up with a function using TclTk: getPass<-function(){ require(tcltk); wnd<-tktoplevel();tclVar(“”)->passVar; #Label tkgrid(tklabel(wnd,text=”Enter password:”)); #Password box tkgrid(tkentry(wnd,textvariable=passVar,show=”*”)->passBox); … Read more
Don’t store you password in your source code, store it in a protected section within you App.Config (or Web.Config). See Encrypting Configuration File Sections Using Protected Configuration section in this Microsoft Doc This works by encrypting the encryption keys using built-in Windows stuff, locked to the MAC address and various other undocumented things. This will … Read more