Handling passwords used for auth in source code

Important note: If you’re designing the authentication system as a whole, you shouldn’t store passwords, even if they’re encrypted. You store a hash, and check if passwords provided during login match the same hash. That way, a security breach on your database avoids getting your users’ passwords exposed. With that said, for situations where you … Read more

Why should checking a wrong password take longer than checking the right one?

It’s actually to prevent brute force attacks from trying millions of passwords per second. The idea is to limit how fast passwords can be checked and there are a number of rules that should be followed. A successful user/password pair should succeed immediately. There should be no discernible difference in reasons for failure that can … Read more

Can’t log in to GitHub on Android Studio

Try this: On GitHub: Log in -> Click on your avatar in the top right hand corner Choose Settings -> Developer settings -> Personal access tokens Click on the “Generate new token” button Add a note if you want, like “Android Studio” Select repo(all), read:org (under admin:org), gist, workflow Click on the “Generate token” button … Read more

Laravel What is a guard?

They’re the definition of how the system should store and retrieve information about your users. You can find the configuration in your config/auth.php file. A web guard is the traditional cookie store – so that web guard instructs Laravel to store and retrieve session information the classic way. The API guard, on the other hand, … Read more