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Ruby on Rails security

In an attempt to learn about Rails security system (ie. for blogs, forums, and other user-based posting systems) I’ve come finally to this method:

pw = "password" # this is soemthing the user enters on registration, obviously.
pw_salt = "G0TwarhtajtaTHeTJ" # random string of characters that’s defined before installation
pw_hash = Digest::SHA1.hexdigest("!_#{pw_salt}_#{pw}")

Obviously this isn’t the complete coding for [...]

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 at 10:06 | 0 comments
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