Jeff Ferland

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“Real” Salt and “Fake” Salt

cryptography passwords hash password-management salt asked Aug 9 '11 at 13:32

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23 votes

“Lunch” vs. “dinner” vs. “supper” — times and meanings?

meaning word-choice nouns dialects asked Apr 24 '11 at 15:05

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17 votes

Good (preferably free) resource for CISSP practice questions

certification cissp professional-education asked Jan 25 '11 at 12:17

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13 votes

Should a pentest report include the tester's opinion?

penetration-test professional-education asked Feb 1 '12 at 18:55

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11 votes

AMD64 — nopw assembly instruction?

c gcc assembly 64bit infinite-loop asked Jan 25 '11 at 20:16

stackoverflow.com

11 votes

Returning from len() when >64 bits

python ipv6 long-integer asked Mar 27 at 2:20

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10 votes

Is a predictable MAC address a risk?

network random entropy dhcp asked Oct 26 '12 at 6:34

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10 votes

Link to a specific inode

linux inode lsof asked Jul 24 '09 at 15:51

serverfault.com

9 votes

Why is AES resistant to known-plaintext attacks?

aes block-cipher known-plaintext-attack asked Dec 20 '11 at 20:03

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8 votes

@EJB annotation in clients

java netbeans java-ee ejb asked May 11 '09 at 15:34

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Does disabling right click have any impact on security?

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Memcache(d) vs. Varnish for speeding up 3 tier web architecture

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Something is burning in the server room; how can I quickly identify what it is?

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Mysterious visitor to hidden PHP page

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Are “man in the middle” attacks extremely rare?

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What would one need to do in order to hijack a satellite?

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Why not allow spaces in a password?

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Technologies that allow YouTube scale distribution?

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How to remove screws with stripped heads?

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Why bracket a single letter in a grep regex?

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Why does Amazon release private keys instead of public keys?

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What is the purpose of a fuzzer?

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Cutting an UTP cable while it's plugged in

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Is this much distrust really necessary?

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Tell bots apart from human visitors for stats?

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How can I prevent people from duplicating my barcodes

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Is it possible to turn a computer into a bomb?

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Trustworthiness of kernel.org post attack

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Mac OS X from an IT Security Practitioners' Perspective?

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Dealing with excessive “Carding” attempts

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Why doesn't the client's web browser need to be PCI compliant?

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How to trace a (mobile) phone?

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Should I have a maximum password length?

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How to apply IT Security knowledge to Home Security?

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If I have two identical linux virtual machine images, will they generate identical random numbers?

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What is the gain by using Puppet instead of Augeas itself?

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Bash script not working with `sh`

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Is it possible to be electrocuted from a properly functioning GFCI circuit?

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Is WPA2 WiFi protected against ARP poisoning and sniffing?

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Why do we even use passwords / passphrases next to biometrics?

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