Security Archives - Andrew Dixon https://www.andrewdixon.co.uk/tag/security/ CFML, AWS, WordPress and more... Mon, 26 Jun 2023 19:39:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Using Argon2 in Lucee CFML https://www.andrewdixon.co.uk/2020/09/19/using-argon2-in-lucee-cfml/ https://www.andrewdixon.co.uk/2020/09/19/using-argon2-in-lucee-cfml/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2020 13:25:27 +0000 https://www.andrewdixon.co.uk/?p=289 A couple of months ago I wrote about password hashing in CFML (if you haven’t read that, I would suggest reading it before reading this) and in the post, I mentioned that Argon2 as being the currently recommended algorithm for password hashing but that, at the time of writing, neither Adobe ColdFusion or Lucee natively …

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]]> https://www.andrewdixon.co.uk/2020/09/19/using-argon2-in-lucee-cfml/feed/ 2 Password Hashing in CFML https://www.andrewdixon.co.uk/2020/05/12/password-hashing-in-cfml/ https://www.andrewdixon.co.uk/2020/05/12/password-hashing-in-cfml/#comments Tue, 12 May 2020 19:45:13 +0000 https://www.andrewdixon.co.uk/?p=267 As we all know, or at least should know, if you are storing passwords in a database, they should only ever be stored as hashes and NEVER as plain text or using reversible encryption. What is hashing? By hashing the password, you are not storing the original password, only a calculated representation of the password, …

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