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I'm disappointed nobody suggested XOR /s
by lttlrck 12y ago
I'm disappointed nobody suggested XOR
/s
- sarciszewski 12y agoI actually saved this before the grand-daddy of bad advice was posted. http://www.cryptofails.com/post/87697461507/46esab-high-quality-cryptography-direct-from-linkedin http://www.cryptofails.com/post/87697461507/46esab-high-qual...
- mercurial 12y agoWhat about rot13?
- hydrogen18 12y agorot13 is obsolete. You need to move on to rot39.
- CaveTech 12y agoBut someone did suggest Base64!
- mercurial 12y agoMultiple someones, including someones with fancy titles.
- tedunangst 12y agoBase64 does have one use: assume you need to store a plaintext password because you need your service to login to another service. (Use oauth, yada yada. Not everybody has it.) base64 coding passwords prevents support staff from trivially seeing and learning passwords when poking about the database. It's not to protect the password from bad people, it's to keep the good people from accidentally learning something they don't want to know.
- DoggettCK 12y agoI really want to suggest XORing the password with itself, as a goof, but it seems like the type of thing that will bite me in the ass later in life.