Top-rated recipes tagged "security"

Pyscanlogger - Python Port scan detector (Python)

2010-03-17T07:27:15-07:00

Python recipe 576690 by Anand (network, programs, security). Revision 5.

A pure Python program to detect network port scanning attacks. Currently logs different TCP port scans. Can run in the background like a daemon and log attacks to a log file.

A nicer password container than str (Python)

2012-06-23T18:00:21-07:00

Python recipe 576905 by david.gaarenstroom (passwd, password, passwords, security). Revision 3.

Because I did not want to expose my passwords in plain text whenever an exception was thrown or inside the debugger, I wrote this simple snippet. It's very simple, but can be quite useful nonetheless...

RSA: a simple and easy-to-read implementation (Python)

2014-03-01T18:56:19-08:00

Python recipe 578838 by Andrea Corbellini (encryption, learning, rsa, security).

This is a really simple RSA implementation. It does not want to be neither fast nor safe; it's aim is to provide a working and easy to read codebase for people interested in discovering the RSA algorithm.

Simple Password Generator (Python)

2012-05-10T16:55:59-07:00

Python recipe 578125 by Isendrak Skatasmid (security).

A simple Password Generator in Python

Safe HTML string and unicode (Python)

2012-01-10T08:14:14-08:00

Python recipe 578008 by Garel Alex (html, security, web). Revision 2.

As you display message on a web page, you have to sanitize input data coming from users to avoid XSS. Here is a small recipe where we can use a special class for our string to be sure we get safe all the way long.

Password Generator (Short Code) (Python)

2011-11-18T03:02:13-08:00

Python recipe 577949 by Alexander James Wallar (alphabet, generator, lambda, password, passwords, password_generator, python, secure, security, short_code). Revision 2.

This recipe generates a pseudo-random password of a prescribed length. It also lets you specify what characters are not permitted in the password or specify what characters are.

Get additional group IDs for Unix user (pwd/grp modules) (Python)

2011-06-03T02:14:18-07:00

Python recipe 577733 by realityexists (group, linux, passwd, security, unix).

The Python stdlib pwd module provides an easy way to get the primary group ID, but no way to get additional group IDs. This is a simple function that returns the additional group IDs for a given username.

Python Sessions (Python)

2011-01-08T03:23:05-08:00

Python recipe 577524 by Sunjay Varma (cgi, cookie, management, python, security, sessions). Revision 2.

I think this script should now be functional enough to post here at ActiveState. When you reply or vote down, please post some information on your problem with the code, and if you can, maybe something about the solution. This interface works, and is designed especially for Python. If you like it, don't be afraid to post that either, constructive criticism is all good, but compliments are even better! ;)

Get the latest version of this code here: http://wiki.sunjay.ca/Python:Contents/Python_Session

Latest Changes:

Added a new function for making the session cookie last longer. See code for set_expires. Note: This new function is just in case you need to include a session for longer than one brower session (for example, one day instead).

Generate a salt (PHP)

2012-07-10T19:52:17-07:00

PHP recipe 576894 by Xavier L. (crypt, generation, generator, hash, pass, password, salt, secure, security, string). Revision 6.

This function will generate a salt for use with passwords ranging using characters in range a to z, A to Z, 0 to 9 and !@#$%&?. The characters are sorted in a random value and can appear more than one time in the string. This way, this function is more powerful than the *shuffle() function. This means that the salt could also be longer than the character list.

Hash text simply (PHP)

2012-04-30T21:43:00-07:00

PHP recipe 576893 by Xavier L. (crypt, extensible, generator, hash, php, secure, security, simple). Revision 5.

This is a simply and extensible script that can be used to rapidly has any amount of text using PHP's hash() built-in function.

It recognizes when the page is loaded for the first time and displays a form with options. Afterward, it display the selected hash(es), with a link at the bottom to start again.

Protect PHP File that must be include (PHP)

2003-06-24T17:41:18-07:00

PHP recipe 207176 by imam ferianto (security).

This Section is describe how we can protect php module that can calling in with include function, but is not secure and its have big risk. For the solution is we can make this module file cannot execute or calling when it's not include, the code simple with test file name. Some study case: we hosting in sites that we cannot protection in dir, regulary we add .htacces in folder /inc/ I was putin .htacces so if we calling http://localhost/inc/ is displayed forbidden but if I try if we calling http://localhost/inc/connect-module.php it will be succesfull and maybe some accident will happen here

Password generation (PHP)

2002-11-29T04:55:53-08:00

PHP recipe 164739 by Alan Prescott (security).

Improved version of make_password submitted by Shane Caraveo. This one adds options to use upper case characters, numerics and special characters.

php htaccess (PHP)

2002-04-25T13:33:27-07:00

PHP recipe 108479 by Sven Wagener (security). Revision 2.

The htaccess class manages the htaccess functions of Apache Webservers. Without knowing much knowledge of Apache, users can be added or deleted, groups can be created anddeleted, .htaccess files can be created with this class etc.

Password Generation (PHP)

2001-12-07T11:02:07-08:00

PHP recipe 101526 by Shane Caraveo (security).

Quite often you need to generate passwords for user authentication systems.

SEDOL code validator and checksum generator (Python)

2008-08-03T01:00:51-07:00

Python recipe 576405 by Paddy McCarthy (security).

Will check SEDOL numbers as well as generate a SEDOL checksum digit.

SPICE for PHP (PHP)

2008-04-30T17:30:49-07:00

PHP recipe 572178 by Stephen Chappell (security).

SPICE has been in development since 2002. The first version was implemented on a graphing calculator, designed to work with base 27 numbers, and used hard coded keys. The program was ported to Java and later redesigned in Python. This implementation was ported directly from the standard code base.

LDAP Authentication (PHP)

2001-12-07T11:00:34-08:00

PHP recipe 101525 by Shane Caraveo (security).

A simple LDAP Authentication script.

Create SHA Hashes of a Directory (Python)

2009-04-14T08:10:26-07:00

Python recipe 576716 by andrew.canit (encryption, hash, security, sha). Revision 2.

Walk through a Directory creating SHA Hashes of each file path

Password Grabber Javascript (JavaScript)

2008-10-26T12:00:08-07:00

JavaScript recipe 576542 by TheMachineCharmer (dom, password, security). Revision 2.

This is script coded for FUN. You can get information in the hidden fields of web pages.