Re: Calling a class library C# method from ms access
Thanks for the link. I had found this previously but while it contained some links to VB I needed VBA so the one for VBScript was probably the closest but that link was broken. add the length of the typed password Thanks. That sounds like a very good suggestion. I will pass this on. Regards Peter On 9/03/2010 10:47 PM, Richard Carde wrote: On 8 Mar 2010, at 22:42, Peter Maddin petermad...@aapt.net.au mailto:petermad...@aapt.net.au wrote: Thanks for the update If there are any problems I can point those who like working with VBA or VBScript to such an implementation. Do you have any links to such VBA /VBScript code? Maybe start here? http://userpages.umbc.edu/~mabzug1/cs/md5/md5.html Of course this requires that all passwords are different and are of reasonable complexity. For half the table to be filled with easily guessed passwords like 'password' will defeat any security measure. It also means that a user who forgets their password must be allowed to create a new one (or have one generated for them) as the old one cannot (in theory) be derived from the hash. Passwords should be one way. Unless it is data that needs to be presented back to the user. I recently reviewed a system that used a text representation of a user's SID as the 256 bit key to protect data that did need to be decrypted. Sounds good in theory, except that the first 32 chars (256 bits) of said string are identical for a given domain. DOH! One can easily Google for common raw MD5 hashes. If you simply add the length of the typed password to the string to be hashed, you at least remove the rainbow attack - which is as good as 'unhashing'. I'd look to using the username or primary key of the user to further differentiate - this will ensure no two hashes of the same password match. HTH. Regards Peter On 9/03/2010 5:44 AM, Richard Carde wrote: If all you need is something to generate an MD5 hash and nothing more, you could use an MD5 implementation directly - afterall, MD5 is MD5. There are a number of VBScript/VBA implementations to select from. -- Richard Cardeegrd
[OT] Australian ALM Conference in April?
Hi Listers I am thinking about attending the ALM conference in Sydney this coming April (http://www.australianalm.com.au/) and am wondering about its value. Considering this event is essentially the official launch of Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010 it's also very relevant to my work as we tend to get the latest and greatest as soon as we can. So there's probably some good benefits there. Just wondering what others think of the event and whether you might be going? --- This email, and any attachments, may be confidential and also privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies of this transmission along with any attachments immediately. You should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. ---
RE: [OT] Australian ALM Conference in April?
Hi Shaun, The reason I am so interested in the Australian ALM conference is the opportunity to see Sam Guckenheimer and Ivar Jacobson who are two luminaries of the industry present at the keynote. I am especially keen to hear what Sam Guckenheimer has to say about the future of the Microsoft development products. I think the real value for this event is that the event is focused on Application Lifecycle Management and it will provide me with the opportunity to see how Visual Studio 2010 will help with marrying business management to development. I think that ALM is going to become increasingly important as a developer and I want to get ahead of the curve. But the real reason I have registered is to try and win the motorised esky they are giving away :) Michael O'Dea-Jones From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Baggett, Shaun Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2010 8:27 AM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: [OT] Australian ALM Conference in April? Hi Listers I am thinking about attending the ALM conference in Sydney this coming April (http://www.australianalm.com.au/) and am wondering about its value. Considering this event is essentially the official launch of Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010 it's also very relevant to my work as we tend to get the latest and greatest as soon as we can. So there's probably some good benefits there. Just wondering what others think of the event and whether you might be going? --- This email, and any attachments, may be confidential and also privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies of this transmission along with any attachments immediately. You should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. ---
Re: [OT - Java]
We're hiring in Sydney! http://www.atlassian.com/32/ Atlassian's a big Java shop. I think I am one of about 2 or 3 .NET developers in the entire engineering division :) I wish they'd hire more .NET people it gets so lonely Tom Rutter wrote: G'day, I know some of the people on this list used to hang in the Java world. Can they please send the names of some places they know in Melbourne, Sydney or Canberra that do Java and may be hiring? A mate who has recently come down from overseas is looking. Cheers Tom -- Register now for Atlassian Summit 2010, June 9-11 http://summit.atlassian.com Joseph Clark .NET Developer Atlassian +61 422 812 044 mobile 173-185 Sussex St. Sydney, NSW Australia
Re: [OT - Java]
Cool thanks. Any others, people? On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Joseph Clark jcl...@atlassian.com wrote: We're hiring in Sydney! http://www.atlassian.com/32/ Atlassian's a big Java shop. I think I am one of about 2 or 3 .NET developers in the entire engineering division :) I wish they'd hire more .NET people it gets so lonely Tom Rutter wrote: G'day, I know some of the people on this list used to hang in the Java world. Can they please send the names of some places they know in Melbourne, Sydney or Canberra that do Java and may be hiring? A mate who has recently come down from overseas is looking. Cheers Tom -- Register now for Atlassian Summit 2010, June 9-11 http://summit.atlassian.com Joseph Clark .NET Developer Atlassian +61 422 812 044 mobile 173-185 Sussex St. Sydney, NSW Australia
