Security :: ClearText / Encryption / Hashing Passwords & Other Password Formatted Values?
Feb 8, 2010
Before I continue I'm going to let everybody know that I am not trying to follow a traditional .Net Membership Provider. I'm attemping to write my own Membership Provider which does not extend the default .Net Membership Provider b/c I feel that in areas it can become extremely cumbersome. Please keep this in mind before responding. Also keep in mind that I am trying to learn from this experience, not find an easy solution for some client's application.I am writing a custom membership provider that has password formatting functionality similar to .Net's default membership provider. I'm looking for soe good/easy examples of ways to encrypt/decrypt or hash password values. I previously tried going the RSA route, but got stuck when I had to Import an RSAParameter and was unsure of how to generate a RSAParameter.
I would like to have both Hashing and Encryption available, but only need Encryption. I'm also looking for a very strong encryption. I'm storing the password format in an external .xml file (similar to how the web.config stores the password format for .Net's Membership Provider) which will become manageable from the administrative side of my webapplication.If anybody knows of any existing Encryption libraries that may provide assistance, please feel free to post links. I only ask that they be open source solutions so I can see how they went about doing this.
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try
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Having spent considerable amount of time in ASP.NET security community I would like to share this.
There are three ways of resetting and changing passwords explained at
Microsoft ASP.NET site[URL]
Step 1: Helping Users Recover Lost Passwords
Step 2: Changing Passwords
Step 3: Allowing Administrators to Change Users' Passwords
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