Re: Password Checker

2018-02-27 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Right, I wasn't worried about Troy's site. But I read through the comments and there was a criticism that the site was vulnerable to malicious intrusions. Because I wasn't using the site itself I didn't worry. Troy also explained why the critcism wasn't entirely valid, but the commenter was sti

Re: Password Checker

2018-02-27 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
Troy is a beast in the security community, so I would not be too worried about him doing something nefarious. He is constantly working with white hats and blue teams to get on top of issues as soon as there is even a peep on the dark web. On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:57 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-l

Re: Password Checker

2018-02-27 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I wouldn't type into that web page either. I used Brian's handler that uses their API and only sends a few characters of the hash to the database. The article explains how it works and includes ways to set up the system on your own server if you want. After reading through it I was convinced it

Re: Password Checker

2018-02-27 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I would highly recommend NOT typing ANY current password you are using into a web page like this. If no one knew about it before, they sure as hell know it now! Whether they avail themselves of it is anyone's guess. Bob S > On Feb 24, 2018, at 13:17 , J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote

Re: Password Checker

2018-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I just got around to trying this -- *very* useful, thanks for posting it. There are no matches for any of my passwords I've tried so far. :) On the other hand, even "AbrahamLincoln" has 128 matches. And you have to insert commas to read the number returned for "qwerty". On 2/22/18 10:50 PM, B

Re: Password Checker

2018-02-23 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
That is built in for LC9. You can use sha1digest though. On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 7:52 AM Roger Eller via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > There seems to be a missing handler, "messageDigest". > > ~Roger > > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:50 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode < >

Re: Password Checker

2018-02-23 Thread Roger Eller via use-livecode
There seems to be a missing handler, "messageDigest". ~Roger On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:50 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Read this interesting article about a half billion PW database of > compromised passwords that I thought I'd share: > > *https://