Sentences with word «plaintext»

Twitter has apologized after it discovered that it had been inadvertently storing users» passwords in plaintext in an internal log, potentially putting them at risk.

When running Nikto, you have the ability to save all findings in plaintext files by using the - Save option.

So Hunt looked at some of the bcrypt hashes from the original Dropbox data and then looked at the corresponding plaintext password from the data trove.

The ciphertexts can be represented as points inside a triangle whose vertices represent the three possible plaintexts.

Grep is a commandline utility for searching plaintext data sets for lines that match a regular expression.

If encryption were broken, those insurance company executives would be carrying around devices with what amounts to plaintext copies of your information and everyone else's information.

The higher the probability that a given ciphertext encodes a particular plaintext, the closer it is to the corresponding vertex: Ciphertexts more likely to encode A than B or C are closer to vertex A than to vertices B and C.

«Sending this information in plaintext undermines decades of efforts by libraries and bookstores to protect the privacy of their patrons and customers,» said Corynne McSherry, the EFF's intellectual property director.

This statement raised a number of questions — chiefly that if privacy is so important, why is the information is being sent in plaintext so that anyone along the network can read it?

Second, after you log on, your login cookies are now being broadcast plaintext which puts users at risk of session hijack attacks.

Since plaintext files don't have formatting, this is not a problem.

You'll notice that beneath most if not all of the answers there is a range of functions, such as download data, customize and save image, and copyable plaintext.

Notice the response includes a simple home card and plaintext outputspeech.

Ex-NSA analyst Patrick Wardle has discovered that malicious third - party apps could let hackers access plaintext passwords stored in Apple's Keychain with the macOS High Sierra update.

For the bitcoin community it is the more relevant as both miners and wallet holders are often reported to store their access data in plaintext configuration files.

«Because Android is so popular, it's likely that Google has plaintext Wi - Fi passwords for the majority of password - protected Wi - Fi networks in the world.»

And off - topic loads of forums and WordPress sites would get called out for accepting passwords over plaintext.

Of course, for most encrypted messages, there are way more than three possible corresponding plaintexts.

An analysis of a massive 8.8 GB trove of files containing usernames and plaintext passwords suggests hundreds of services may have experienced unreported or undiscovered data breaches.

Instead, he recommends services like SpiderOak, whose local encryption means the server never even knows the plaintext contents of the data it's storing.

What about functions of the plaintext?»»

In addition to addressing cryptographers» concerns about functions of the plaintext, this approach has the advantage of not requiring analysis of massively multidimensional probability spaces.

For each ciphertext, there is some probability that it encodes each of the three plaintexts.

To get a sense of how the technique works, imagine an encryption scheme that takes only three possible inputs, or plaintexts — «A,» «B,» and «C» — and produces only three possible outputs, or ciphertexts.

Even a plaintext as simple as a nine - digit number has a billion possible values, so the probabilities corresponding to an encoded Social Security number would describe a point in a billion - dimensional space.

He then uses his private key to decrypt the file to get the plaintext file.

Krebs found that the stolen information was all plaintext, meaning no encryption was in place, and included names, email addresses, DOBs and passwords of users from around the world.

The information was all plaintext, meaning no encryption was in place, and included names, email addresses, DOBs and passwords of around 42m users from around the world.

Using free software such as Wireshark, an eavesdropper can see what data is being transmitted in plaintext.

But credit - cards are the big one you have to keep in plaintext.

This Orwellian mechanism was spotted by Nate Hoffelder of The Digital Reader blog; the plaintext information transmitted also includes the title, publisher, and other metadata about the ebooks.

For instance, Steam would be called out for insecure cookies and collecting Date of Birth over plaintext.

The tripping device consists of a main control switch for four operating methods (circulation pump, cold water feed pump, summer operation and winter operation) as well as a plaintext LCD display which guarantees a very easy handling.

Four locks, for example, transmitted their user passwords in plaintext to smartphones, making it easy for anyone with a $ 100 Bluetooth sniffer to pluck the passwords out of thin air.

With plaintext, there are no styles or formatting.