Formatting User-Submitted Text

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

If you are a PHP and/or a PBBG developer, then I'm sure you know about the problems associated with user-submitted text. If not sanitized properly, your website could be the victim of XSS attacks and SQL injections. In this article I will discuss what methods I use to protect my ...

Update to using MD5 and SHA-1

Friday, January 11th, 2008

This is a post following up from a previous post, "Using MD5 and SHA-1 Separately". I did some more research, listened to responses, and I found some related stuff on the internet as well.

Another way to protect data

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

I just got another idea on how to protect data :) I got this idea from a response to my earlier post on using SHA-1 and MD5 together. This person said, why not use SHA-1 on an MD5 hash? I was about to rebuke him, but then I thought about it ...

Using MD5 and SHA-1 Separately

Monday, January 7th, 2008

There are already so many people using so many different combinations of MD5 and SHA-1 to protect sensitive data in games as well as elsewhere. Different methods are used, such as salting, multiple stages of encryption, etc. I have an idea of going one step further in encrypting data. It's not ...