Password validation in UITextField in iOS

This is how I would do it. The validation should be done at the end when the user has typed in the password and not in between.I will not be using NSRegularExpression. -(void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField{ int numberofCharacters = 0; BOOL lowerCaseLetter,upperCaseLetter,digit,specialCharacter = 0; if([textField.text length] >= 10) { for (int i = 0; i < [textfield.text … Read more

JOptionPane to get password

Yes, it is possible using JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(). Something like this: JPanel panel = new JPanel(); JLabel label = new JLabel(“Enter a password:”); JPasswordField pass = new JPasswordField(10); panel.add(label); panel.add(pass); String[] options = new String[]{“OK”, “Cancel”}; int option = JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(null, panel, “The title”, JOptionPane.NO_OPTION, JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE, null, options, options[1]); if(option == 0) // pressing OK button { char[] … Read more

How to generate random password with PHP?

Just build a string of random a-z, A-Z, 0-9 (or whatever you want) up to the desired length. Here’s an example in PHP: function generatePassword($length = 8) { $chars=”abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789″; $count = mb_strlen($chars); for ($i = 0, $result=””; $i < $length; $i++) { $index = rand(0, $count – 1); $result .= mb_substr($chars, $index, 1); } return … Read more

How to hash a password with SHA-512 in Java?

you can use this for SHA-512 (Not a good choice for password hashing). import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets; import java.security.MessageDigest; import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; public String get_SHA_512_SecurePassword(String passwordToHash, String salt){ String generatedPassword = null; try { MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance(“SHA-512”); md.update(salt.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); byte[] bytes = md.digest(passwordToHash.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); for(int i=0; i< bytes.length ;i++){ sb.append(Integer.toString((bytes[i] & 0xff) + 0x100, … Read more

Automate Extended Validation (EV) code signing with SafeNet eToken

Expanding on answers already in this thread, it is possible to provide the token password using the standard signtool program from microsoft. 0. Open SafeNet Client in Advanced View Install paths may vary, but for me the SafeNet client is installed to: C:\Program Files\SafeNet\Authentication\SAC\x64\SACTools.exe Click the gear icon in the upper right to open “advanced … Read more

Unique key generation

There are only 3 ways to generate unique values, rather they be passwords, user IDs, etc.: Use an effective GUID generator – these are long and cannot be shrunk. If you only use part you FAIL. At least part of the number is sequentially generated off of a single sequence. You can add fluff or … Read more

Change WooCommerce default password security level

The only existing hook setting for that is woocommerce_min_password_strength filter hook. So you can set a custom hook function and lowering this strenght. There is 4 possible settings: 3 => Strong (default) 2 => Medium 1 => Weak 0 => Very Weak (anything). Here is that code: add_filter( ‘woocommerce_min_password_strength’, ‘reduce_min_strength_password_requirement’ ); function reduce_min_strength_password_requirement( $strength ) … Read more