secure-password | Making Password storage safer | Hashing library

I am trying to execute a powershell script (that I am uploading to the storage account using the Azure Storage Client Library for .NET) from a task that runs within a Batch pool.

I know that I am uploading the powershell script correctly (I can verify this by logging onto Azure and verifying that the .ps1 script exists within the storage account), and that the Pool, Job and Task are created correctly, however I suspect that the actual command I am sending to the task is incorrect and that is why my task is error-ing. (This is the string named powershellTask in the code example below)

Is there a way to decrypt PBKDF2 password in java. Java has implementation of PBKDF2 algorithm as PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1. I got the code to create hashes for password. I referred to below link for hashing technique:

http://howtodoinjava.com/security/how-to-generate-secure-password-hash-md5-sha-pbkdf2-bcrypt-examples/

My requirement is to store the third Party FTP server password in the encrypted format and get back the password in plain text form from DB when there is a need to login into the server. Can anyone suggest best password encryption method?

I'm exploring currently the safe aspects of Java. Of course one of the first things I looked up, was the whole decoding point.

Mentioned decryption technologies

After some time of studying I learned some thing about following cryptography technologies:

1. MD5
2. SHA
3. PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1

Why am I asking this question ?

I know that roughly speaking SHA1 is safer than MD5, with PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1 being the safest. But now I have to ask myself, why in some applications an encryption like MD5 or SHA1 is still used, whereas in this case PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1 is more secure? I am of course aware that the chance to take advantage of the best technology comes only in rare cases (reduction of brute force speed / risk of collision).

But in spite of everything the implementation time is a little bit longer and in return you get a more secure encryption.

My final question

In short, my question is why not all applications always use the best encryption technology, even if they don't necessarily need it? I mean the only drawback is that it takes a little bit longer to implement.

In addition

I don't think that the loss of speed is a reason, to not use the best encryption technologies.

The goal is to make the hash function slow enough to impede attacks, but still fast enough to not cause a noticeable delay for the user. From here

I have followed the following guide to create a SecureString password. Now, I need to log on to a foreign Domain Controller with the dsquery options -s (server) -u (user) and -p (password).

I am using a node.js express framework and initially wrote the get database password/hash and compare form password/hash in one route file. Now I want to pass a userName to a separate module. The module should accept a userName and return the corresponding password/hash from the database.

Before breaking the functions out into their own modules, we return the hash and pass it to the next function (passHash) and the code worked just fine. Now that I've separated the functions from the db calls, I cannot figure out how to return the hash back to the original function.

With the functions broken out into two separate files, I can successfully pass userName to the database module (it console logs the username/hash), but I cannot return the user's password/hash back to the original function in the original route. I've read many posts on how to use require to pass "OR" return variables/objects from one module to another, but nothing on how to pass a variable "AND" return the post function data.

Here are some of the resources that I consulted when creating these files

1.) Accepted answer was easy to follow (this is the model I used)

2.) Advanced

3.) Example most answers show one way return functions

4.) Seems to have the answer

Additionally, I have tried returning the password/hash in several arrangements; Create an object and return properties. Return the object, and assign the object to a variable and extract the property similar to link 4 Above.

Below are:

1.) The Modularized Database function (databaseLoginUser.js)

2.) The Original Route that calls the Modularized function (databaseLogin.js)

3.) The console output (no error just hangs waiting for the next function)

Since I installed Firefox 53, everytime I start one of my automated Selenium tests in Firefox a second tab is opened just a moment after launch, which then prevents my test from finding its needed controls on the first tab and ultimately makes it fail. The new tab's url is: https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/53.0.2/WINNT/de/insecure-password

The tests work fine in Chrome and Internet Explorer. And there also is no tab opening in when I use Firefox manually. The same problem occurs not only on my local maschine but also on two servers we use as Test Agents for TFS.

I am using C# in Visual Studio 2015 with the packages Selenium.WebDriver and Selenium.Support both in version 3.3, there is a bug that prevents me from using 3.4 (see this question). My Firefox version is 53.0.2, geckodriver is 0.16.1 and Selenium Server Standalone is 3.4.0. I am using the RemoteWebDriver to launch the Browsers.

I've tried finding an about:config value that might disable this new tab or using a custom FirefoxProfile in Selenium, but both to no avail.

i'm new with node.js and ORM's, and i'm using bookshelf for the db querys. So, i checked the documentation of bookshelf and when i'm trying to build a query to my existing schema in mysql it throws the following error: