In case one wants to protect VBA applications to make trial(demo) versions and not to expose the scripts, how secure the built in password protection is? Are there any alternatives? Edit: I'm asking about Excel VBA here. ...
This question is related to my previous one. Can you explain or give a link to an explanation of how Excel VBA code password protection actually works in versions prior to 2007, and what is the difference in 2007? Does it actually encrypt the code and how Excel executes the code if it is encrypted? How password removal software for exce...
What is the best way to password protect folder using php without a database or user name but using. Basically I have a page that will list contacts for organization and need to password protect that folder without having account for every user . Just one password that gets changes every so often and distributed to the group. I understa...
I am generating a reports using SQL Reporting services 2005. I need to protect the protect the reports(pdf and excel) with the password while the user is exporting the report to to excel or pdf. Is there any way to protect the report. ...
What is the correct way to log out of HTTP authentication protected folder? There are workarounds that can achieve this, but they are potentially dangerous because they can be buggy or don't work in certain situations / browsers. That is why I am looking for correct and clean solution. ...
Typically, I always recommend using a cryptographically-strong random value as salt, to be used with hash functions (e.g. for passwords), such as to protect against Rainbow Table attacks. But is it actually cryptographically necessary for the salt to be random? Would any unique value (unique per user, e.g. userId) suffice in this rega...
In my last question "Portable database for storing secrets" the best answer until now tell to use sqlite-crypt. Reading sqlite-crypt docs, the new param for open the database is the pass-phrase. Of course, I don't want hardcode the password, so I was thinking what the best, simple and fast method to store that password? ...
We store all our application and db passwords in plain text in source control. We do this as our build/deploy process generates required configuration files and also does actual deploys that require these passwords (ie: running sql against a database requires you logon to the db using valid credentials). Has anyone had a similar need w...
Does anyone know of a technique to prevent someone (me!) accidentally committing a file with a public database connection string in it to Google Code. I need to run some unit tests on the database from my local machine (to update the DB schema) but I'm concerned that I'll forget that I've changed the connection to point to the public DB ...
How can I password protect my website during development with htaccess in Cakephp? which htaccess file do I have to change? what do I have to write in the htaccess where do I put the .htpasswd? I searched google for that but couldn't find anything useful, I hope you could help me! Thanks Till that helped me solve the problem! For...
I have a recent unfortunate event. I host a business partner's SQLServer 2005 server, and the "sa" password was mysteriously changed (nobody wants to take responsibility on it). So I was wondering, is there a way I can configure SQL Server 2005 to log all password changes? I know that could be achieved with Windows Server 2003, Windows ...
I want to write a program that analyzes your fantasy baseball team and notifies you of recommended actions, possibly multiple times per day. The problem is, you aren't playing fantasy baseball on my site, you're playing on yahoo, or cbs, or espn, etc. On the majority of these sites, fantasy teams and leagues are not public, so you must...
Does anyone know the syntax for this? I've been looking everywhere and all I can find is C++ code for this. I'm trying to password protect an excel file programatically using the System.IO.Packaging namespace. Any ideas? Additional notes: I'm NOT using the Excel interop--but instead the System.IO.Packaging namespace to encrypt and...
Hi, I was going to use .htaccess to password protect a directory for a php script I'm writing, as I do not trust my PHP skills to create a secure login, but I found out you cannot use relative paths for AuthUserFile and I could not generalize this. If you could direct me to a secure PHP login script to password protect a directory I wou...
I'm currently working on a PHP OpenID provider that will work over HTTPS (hence SSL encrypted). Is it wrong for me to transmit the password as plain text? HTTPS in theory, cannot be intercepted, so I don't see anything wrong. Or is this unsafe at some level and I'm failing to see this? ...
How would I go about using C# to programmatically determine whether a SQL Server 2000 backup file has been password protected? ...
I've been asked to update some Excel 2003 macros, but the VBA projects are password protected, and it seems there's a lack of documentation... no-one knows the passwords. Is there a way of removing or cracking the password on a VBA project? ...
Hi All, The scenario is intended user will access the servlet (e.g http://someip/myservlet) which in turn authenticates a password protected website (e.g. mysite.com - which is hosted on IIS server with Use Windows authentication enabled) implicitly and then opens that mysite.com – so that: target users will not get prompt for usernam...
Is there a way to password protect SAS CODE within SAS? Or, if not, what is the easiest / quickest way to apply some kind of password protection? I am referring to scripts run from local Windows PCs (ie not batch). The scripts are stored on a standard network drive... (Ideally the solution would not involve a Microsoft product such a...
Now that I know that there is an easy workaround to the standard way of locking and password-protecting VBA code, I'd like to move on to more effective ways of protecting code. I am to deliver an Excel-based tool to a client, but would like something more than simple annoyance-type protection that will only deter the very laziest of hack...