passphrase

Failures caused by logrotate on Apache 2 with passphrase protected SSL key

I have an Apache 2 installation on Debian with mod_ssl installed. The server private key is protected by a passphase that needs to be entered on start-up. The error and access logs are subject to logrotate on a weekly basis. I find that Apache crashes with a passphrase-related error shortly after logrotate runs. I understand that log...

How do you generate passwords?

Random Characters? Passphrases? High Ascii? cat /dev/urandom | strings ...

How do I remove the passphrase for the SSH key without having to create a new key?

I set a passphrase when creating a new SSH key on my laptop. But, as I realise now, this is quite a PITA when you are trying to commit(git,svn) to a remote location over SSH many times in an hour. One way I can think of is, delete my SSH keys and create new. Is there a way to remove the passphrase, while still keeping the same keys? A...

Password composition algorithm

I'm sick of remembering all the passwords for different logins. Lately I found the interesting tool password composer which lets you generate passwords base on the hostname and a secret master password. But I don't want to use a website or installing software to generate my passwords. So I'm looking for a simple one way hashing alogorit...

Java passphrase encryption

I'm trying to learn how to do passphrase-based encryption with Java. I'm finding several examples online, but none (yet) on Stack Overflow. The examples are a little light on explanation for me, particularly regarding algorithm selection. There seems to be a lot of passing strings around to say what algorithms to use, but little docum...

cygwin ssh no putty yes?

I generated a keys with putty w/ no passphrase. putty works fine, but now i installed cygwin and would like to use ssh to login. For some reason i'm prompted for a passphrase? why? putty just logs straight in? i don't want to have to generate a new key and piss off the network admins. here is what it looks like in cygwin: $ ssh -i Doc...

need help generating CSR using my developer program

My professor has got a iphone standard developer program and has given me the credentials to login. I am unable to create a CSR following the steps in the program portal. The email id in the profile shown in the apple developer site is different from the id that was used is for registering to the program. My professor has never logged in...

how to find passphrase in an image .jpg?

Is there any tool or software to find passphrases in an image like .jpg? or Should i use any programming in this regard, i googled but din't find any guidance? ...

Keep SSL keyfile open in Python

I'm using Python's ssl library with an encrypted keyfile. However every time I wrap a socket, I'm prompted for the passphrase. Enter PEM pass phrase: How can I give the passphrase just once, and have Python hold the decrypted key open for the lifetime of the process? I'm very interested in the canonical openssl command line or C equi...

OpenSSH Two Phase Login

I would like it if when I use OpenSSH like so: ssh user@host that it asks for a passphrase Please enter Passphrase: then asks for the password Please enter Password: Is this possible? ...