what is the difference between the simple authentication and more secure authentication?
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Hi \n\nOk , simple means that the info you sent or paswd sent is UNENCRYPTED , as in authentication is encrypted.Ok , if  you put your password on a site look at the bottom of the IE and youll seee a lock thats says 128 encryption , also it means the site deals with HTTPS , wish stands for Hypert Tex Transfer Protcol Secure. Write me if you need anything else
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There is no secure "password scheme" that doesn't involve some sort of encryption. If you don't have encryption, your data is on the disk "in the clear." Anyone with a binary disk reader can easily get it.\n\nTake Windows, for example. Windows doesn't use encryption to protect your files, but it can be configured to password-protect your account. There are hundreds of programs available that can easily reset a Windows password and give anyone access to your files.\n\nEncryption software is no more complex than your word processor, and some encryption software is user-friendly (PGP, WinZip). If you want to keep your data secure, you need encryption.
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Yahoo is secure when you send your password, so when you log in.  After it logs you in, a security warning pop up will appear (unless you have disabled it) saying you are switching from a secure to an unsecure website. \n\nThis is Normal.\n\nAfter logging you in, Yahoo Mail itself has unsecure and secure items on the site.  This pop-up warning is normal and you shouldn't work about it.
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You have a lot of spelling mistake.\n\nI think opera and firefox are equally secure.
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Assume that I was looking to write a secure but real time response based software.\nIf I choose to make it unbreakable, I can use very hard encryptions on it, but that would slow down the whole process and it would not be real time. \nIn such a case, I can opt for a weak encryption to allow for faster response. This encryption now needs to be only as secure as the duration of the software use, which may be for small bursts of time.
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It sounds like you are talking about a single-sign on system like kereberos.  A system like this uses a trusted server to store users encrypted keys. The idea is that only the user and the keystore know how to read the key. When you login, successfully, the keyserver sends you a "token" which is an encrypted bit of data that only you can decrypt (with your private key). It is also signed with the keyserver's key so that you can verify on receipt that the token is genuine and unaltered. When you want to talk to another server on the network. You use your token to request a ticket from the keyserver. It then sends you a ticket (much like the token) that you can present to the other server. You then present your ticket to the other server. It verifies the authenticity of your ticket, and then sends you a ticket that you verify. Once the hand-shake is complete you can setup a secure connection using public key crypto, to exchange a symmetric session key. Using a symmertic key is faster, and since it is changed from one connection to the next even if your traffic is recorded and played back an attacker will not be able to impersonate you.\n\nCheck out the book applied cryptography for more information about how this works. I know that I butchered some of the details in the above description.
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Depends on what your currently doing right now. Of course authentication and authorization are huge topics in the security feild.  But for starters, don't store any plain text data.  Use strong encryption (3DES, Blowfish, AES,MD5, etc...) on any personally stored information.  \n\nTake a trip over to the open source web application securty project and have a look at the top ten list of common web application vulnerabilities. This should be a good starting point for you.
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Hotmail is very safe.\nThats why Microsoft use it for Passport authentication.\n\nGmail & Yahoo are also safe.\n\nThe trick to know whether its safe is \n\nAt the login page after you type password and click\nsubmit, look at the URL.\nIf url reads https://sitename.com ,(not just http://) then its secure!!!!.\nThat is your password & username is send as encrypted data accross net. So its suppose to be safer!!!! You can hope its safe
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how easy is your password to guess?
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Sessions are better.\n\nCookies have some limitations like being limited to 4K of data and the browser allowing only 20 cookies from each server.  \n\nSessions are more secure than cookies since the information is stored on the server rather than on the client (like cookies are).  With a little extra programming, Sessions will function even if the user has cookies disabled in the browser.  They're designed to work with cookies, but they'll still function without them.  You don't have the 4K data limit with sessions, either.  That allows you to store entire objects or arrays in session variables.  \n\nCookies are easier to program and they require less from the server, but sessions are the better choice.  \n\nSessions CAN be hijacked, so you'll need to do a little extra programming to prevent that (if needed).\n\nGood luck!
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Look at the following pdf, it's described in the 'Adding password protection' section :)
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Authentication determines a user's identity, as well as determining what a user is authorized to access, eg a financial database or a support knowledgebase. The most common form of authentication is user name and password, although this also provides the lowest level of security. VPNs use digital certificates and digital signatures to more accurately identify the user.\n\nEncryption is any procedure used in cryptography to convert plaintext into ciphertext in order to prevent anyone except the intended recipient from reading that data. There are many types of data encryption, and they are the basis of network security. Common types include Data Encryption Standard and public-key encryption.
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Its password protected for a reason.  Only the administrator can give you the password to gain access.
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For sure it has something to do with the login and password. If the config set to default then just ignore the password parameter. (don't put any)
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How you log on depends on the protocol that is being used for the authentication.\n\nFortunately for you, Python has libraries for interacting with HTTP, FTP, NNTP, SMTP etc.\n\nGive the docs below a try.
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not problems , but its more secure , u had to add many sites to trusted sites , also mail , also java script may need some tune
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SQL server is very very more secure than access and faster and more relyable.\naccess is not good for the case that you need security or larg amount of data .\nfor example if you want test it .... I can send you a file wih finds a ms-access database's password in less than 30 seconds.\nthen you can see how secure acess is.