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New Wordpress password hasher tool

By stotti | Published: June 30, 2009
This time just a quick post as I am in a hurry. Ever wondered how to change your Wordpress password in case you have forgotten it? In early versions Wordpress used the MD5 hashing algorithm to “encrypt” the passwords of a user. Nowadays Wordpress uses the Portable PHP password hashing framework (PHPASS) instead of MD5 [...]
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MD5 and SHA1 encoder plugins for major browsers

By stotti | Published: May 17, 2009
As already announced at the site itself, the MD5 and SHA1 encoders at mainframe8 support the use of custom browser search engines for quite a while now. This means you can MD5/SHA1 encode strings directly from the browser! Technical background We don’t rely on the old Sherlock standard but used the up-to-date OpenSearch definition. Sherlock has been [...]
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now on the mainframe8 scriptserver: url decoding

By stotti | Published: January 18, 2009
the mainframe8 scriptserver now hosts a new feature – an url decoder. what does it do? the URL decoder decyphers / converts an urlencoded string online. URL encoding is better known as percent-encoding and is used to encode Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). It is referenced in RFC2396. Basically url encoding replaces spaces with “+” signs, and [...]
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the mainframe8 encoders on dmoz.org

By stotti | Published: January 13, 2009
great news everyone! the md5 encoder and its equivalents for sha1 and des ciphers have made it into the open directory project. you can find it in the Science: Math: Applications: Communication Theory: Cryptography: Algorithms: Message Digests section. here’s a screenshot: thanks to the dmoz.org editors! [update] i forgot to paste the urls so you can get there [...]
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soccer at the bodensee

By stotti | Published: May 28, 2008
on of my babies (=projects) at aperto is the so called fankurve bodensee. this site promotes one of the biggest public viewing events related to the uefa euro2008. now the colleagues at scholz&friends have produced two nice ads for it that you can see on youtube, myvideo and for a short amount of time on [...]
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