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User Handling, part 1

Intro

At the end of my last post, we had just finished authenticating that a user registering for your site was in fact, a human. Now we’re gonna go a step further and discuss registering them, and creating a simple login system that uses form-based authentication, or more specifically, a form-based authentication system that uses html and http.

Regulating Real Registrations

It is not all that uncommon for various people to get users registering for whichever website they run. Sometimes it’s one every couple of days or weeks, or sometimes multiple registrations per minute. The one thing the entire spectrum has to deal with though, is making sure the user is a person, someone who types in the name, password, and extra details. Granted if the “hacker” is rich enough, they can get other real people to log in and start spamming links or try to be a scam artist, asking for someone’s password and all that other good stuff. Here are a few unobtrusive ways to help prevent these things from happening.

Star Wars offshoot as a programming concept?

A couple days ago I was working on some homework for one of my programming classes. We’re learning to program Android OS phones using Java and this particular exercise had us learning how to interact with a SQLite database. Looking through the tutorial of this there was mentioning of “giving basic CRUD functionality” to the system through this Database Adapter that had been written for us.

The ADFGVX Cipher

The first in a series of many blog posts I hope to be making as I go on an adventure of learning Cryptography through Programming. Today’s entry is about the ADFGVX cipher, used in World War 1, and first used by me because it was the first on the list.

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