How to install and use the NordPass password manager on Linux
The makers of NordVPN have come out with a new version of their NordPass password manager. Find out how to install and use it.
Find the HOWTO or step-by-step guide that you need right here.
The makers of NordVPN have come out with a new version of their NordPass password manager. Find out how to install and use it.
Password security involves a broad set of practices, and not all of them are appropriate or possible for everyone. Therefore, the best strategy is to develop a threat model by thinking through your most significant risks—who and what you are protecting against—then model your security approach on the activities that are most effective against those specific threats. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a great series on threat modeling that I encourage everyone to read.
The first article in this series introduced hashes, encryption/decryption, digital signatures, and digital certificates through the OpenSSL libraries and command-line utilities. This second article drills down into the details. Let’s begin with hashes, which are ubiquitous in computing, and consider what makes a hash function cryptographic.