.htaccess Guide And Tools
Includes and introduction to using .htaccess and tools to create .htaccess and .htpasswd files automatically. Tutorial includes blocking IP's, user/pass authentication, preventing hotlinking and more.
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A matter of trust or is it?
Who do you know who you are really dealing with when disclosing your personal / credit card details over the Internet? This explains the current methods available for proving the identity of a web site and explains why they fail. It offers an alternative solution to the problem of web site authenticity.
(Added: 13-Mar-2003 Hits: 483 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It | Recommend It
Alternative to CAPTCHA
At first CAPTCHA was a lifesaver, dramatically reducing the time webmasters had to spend deleting spam posts and registrations. Not surprisingly, the spammers found a way around it using computer character recognition software rendering CAPTCHA nearly worthless (in most cases). This short tutorial will explain a new system that works much better.
(Added: 10-Mar-2007 Hits: 82 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It | Recommend It
Authentication - who's site is it really?
Whilst a lot of work seems to have been done on personal authentiction, little or no work has been done about web site authentication to users. Users should be just as entitled to authenticate web sites as web sites are to authenticate them.
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Basic PHP Security
An introduction to some of the directives in the php.ini file that can help secure your server and prevent attacks.
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Configuring htaccess
Learn how to password protect sensitive areas of your website with htaccess and htpasswd.
(Added: 30-Nov-2000 Hits: 1408 Rating: 8.00 Votes: 2) Rate It | Recommend It
Cryptography and SSL Tutorials by Herong
This free book is an excellent tutorial book for beginners. It is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning cryptography himself. Topics include Blowfish, CA, certificate, certification path, cipher, cryptography, CSR, decryption, DES, encryption, Java, JCE, JDK, OpenSSL, PEM, private key, public key, RSA, sample codes, secret key, self-signed certificate, SSL, X509.
(Added: 27-Jan-2006 Hits: 144 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It | Recommend It
Digital Signatures
In this article I will clarify what a digital signature is and will demonstrate ways of using this technology to validate the identity of a user. The internet is filled with fraudulent villains that can take you or your organization to the cleaners, without you even knowing about it till it's too late.
(Added: 9-Jun-2004 Hits: 238 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It | Recommend It
Does SSL protect you, or is it a condom that is open at both ends?
For the last five or so years, SSL has been paraded as the technology that secures the Internet. All you have to do is look and see the padlock on the bottom of the screen and you can be sure it’s safe. Is it true?
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E-Commerce Risk
For some reason, consumers seem to place less trust in the security of their information on the Internet than they do when calling a toll free number or placing an order by regular snail mail.
(Added: 4-Aug-2000 Hits: 1008 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It | Recommend It
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