Password hashing is a valuable security feature that helps to ensure users’ passwords are encrypted at rest when saved in user data stores, such as databases. Hashing works on the principle of reliable/repeatable one-way encrypting of data.
Category: Miscellaneous
-
Password Hashing
(more…) -
Reverse Lookup of Machine Name from IP-Address
(more…)
There may be times when you have the IP-address of a machine on the local network, but not the user friendly machine name. In this scenario, debugging which machine logged an error message can be difficult. Fortunately, on Windows machines at least, a reverse lookup should be relatively simple on the command line.
-
Extended ASCII (ISO/IEC 8859)
(more…)
The Extended ASCII character set extends the basic 7-bit ASCII range to 8-bits, to provide additional character encoding for broader character representation scenarios.
It builds upon ISO/IEC 2022 which defined the initial 8-bit ASCII character set, with the C0 character set range replicating 7-bit ASCII and the C1 range covering extended control characters using character codes 128-159.
-
ASCII Character Table (ISO/IEC 646)
(more…)
ASCII is an acronym for ‘American Standard Code for Information Interchange’ and is a very old and long-lived data format.
The standard dates back to the 1960s, and is still in use today.
The lower 7-bit ASCII range represents a standardised western (English) alphabet.