Online Security in Off Topic

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Dec 26 2006, 1:28 am
I would like to create a site that will require passwords, however, I cannot find out any tutorials on how to make it so that the passwords are not in plain text but in some other medium.

I looked and I couldn't find any. Does anyone know of any good ones?
#1 Dec 26 2006, 6:30 am
Learning PHP would be a good idea for this.
#2 Dec 26 2006, 7:30 am
Shlaklava wrote:
I looked and I couldn't find any.

i don't believe you actually tried very hard. typing in 'password protecting a website in javascript' into Google, gave me these links, and more:

http://javascript.internet.com/passwords/
http://javascript.internet.com/passwords/login-coder.html
http://www.tashian.com/htmlguide/password.html
http://www.hypergurl.com/generators/passwordgenerator.html

for using PHP or .htaccess:
http://www.4webhelp.net/tutorials/misc/htaccess.php
http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/ User_Management/Password_Protection/

...just to name a few from the hundreds available. took me all of 30 seconds. the rest you'll have to learn to do yourself - we can't 'spoon-feed' you everything.

try again - google is your friend! learn to use wisely, and the world opens up to you.
#3 Dec 26 2006, 9:09 am
In response to CaptFalcon33035 (#1)
CaptFalcon33035 wrote:
Learning PHP would be a good idea for this.

Yes, Php and Sql do wonders together.
#4 Dec 26 2006, 2:04 pm
In response to digitalmouse (#2)
digitalmouse wrote:
Shlaklava wrote:
I looked and I couldn't find any.

i don't believe you actually tried very hard. typing in 'password protecting a website in javascript' into Google, gave me these links, and more:

http://javascript.internet.com/passwords/
http://javascript.internet.com/passwords/login-coder.html
http://www.tashian.com/htmlguide/password.html
http://www.hypergurl.com/generators/passwordgenerator.html

for using PHP or .htaccess:
http://www.4webhelp.net/tutorials/misc/htaccess.php
http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/ User_Management/Password_Protection/

...just to name a few from the hundreds available. took me all of 30 seconds. the rest you'll have to learn to do yourself - we can't 'spoon-feed' you everything.

try again - google is your friend! learn to use wisely, and the world opens up to you.

I was using the keywords Online Security so I guess I have to get better in my game engines. I prefer not to use javascript because some people have it turned off.

Thank you for your help. I guess I have to get better at using google.
#5 Dec 26 2006, 2:16 pm
Shlaklava wrote:
I would like to create a site that will require passwords, however, I cannot find out any tutorials on how to make it so that the passwords are not in plain text but in some other medium.

I looked and I couldn't find any. Does anyone know of any good ones?

Generally passwords are stored via hashing them. There's lots of stuff about using md5 and maybe a salt to hash passwords, for example. Basically, you send the password through a one-way function (ex: something involving md5()) and compare the output of that function with what you have stored.