A passphrase is a sequence of words or other text used to control access to a computer system, program or data. Passphrases are often used to control both access to, and operation of, cryptographic programs and systems.
Questions tagged [passphrase]
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Azure Backup Agent Install Generating Error
I am encountering this error, "100024 The encryption passphrase provided does not match with passphrase associated with the following server: %ServerName Please update the server settings with the current passphrase for data encryption." I used the…

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How to generate passphrase protected RSA keys in Perl
I'm trying to generate a public and private key with passphrase protection in Perl but I haven't found anything useful.
Until now I have found this link http://search.cpan.org/~vipul/Crypt-RSA-1.57/lib/Crypt/RSA.pm which seems very promising.…

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arduino wifi passphrase with \0
I'm trying to connect Arduino to a WiFi network.
const char* ssid = "ssid";
char* password = "some_hex_chars";
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void setup(void){
WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
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The problem is, a have code 0x00 somewhere in passphrase. Since begin()…

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Writing a runit script for a program that requires a passphrase
I wrote a python program that requires a passphrase to run, and I would like to securely read the passphrase at startup. I would also like to supervise this program with runit.
So far, my program reads the passphrase from the environment variable…

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how to create private key with passphrase in openssl
I am creating private key and csr as follows:
openssl req -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout ./private.key -out ./mycsr.csr -subj "CN=blah"
I understand since the above command has a -nodes(no des) , the private key will not be having a passphrase.
I…

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How to save secure a aes key
following scenario:
I've a client server application, the communication is crypted by aes and rsa (poor man ssl). But that's not my problem. The client itself, crypted some text (also aes), this text will be send to the server and will stored into a…

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how to encrypt AES key using passphrase?
I want to encrypt AES-128 bit key using pass phrase. The maximum number of characters of the pass phrase is 16. Is it possible to encrypt the key? Which algorithm is suitable to encrypt the key?

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How to use a custom key in Crypto++
I have a question referring to the encryption code in this question:
Crypto++ encrypt and decrypt in two different c++ programs
If I want to use a custom key/iv, how can I do this?

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apns-client how to give it the passphrase in my code?
I am using apns-client (Note: not apnswrapper, so please don't close it as duplicate)
I am able to send push notifications with bypassing the passphrase.
But i want to use passphrase to make it secure.
I can't understand from the example on where…

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python library to connect to apns do not have a place to add passphrase APNSWrapper, pyapns ( note: i am not asking how to bypass passphrase)
when i write a python script to connect to APNS and send push notifications jsut like the sample script
https://code.google.com/p/apns-python-wrapper/wiki/APNSWrapperOverview
I do not find a place to pass it the PEM passphrase.
Not i was able to…

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Storing ssh passphrase on an external drive
In order to access a server we use ssh where the keys protected by a passphrase.
We want to generate a long passphrase such that the keys themselves are not enough to access that machine and the passphrase is hard to hack.
ssh-agent can store…

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Cannot ssh into instance created in eucalyptus
I installed the eucalyptus faststart3.4.2 iso from here http://downloads.eucalyptus.com/software/faststart/ and then I installed cloud in a box. Then creating an instance m1.small I am trying to ssh into the instance created by its IP. The VM is…

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Enter passphrase for key
I am trying to clone a heroku app with a folder in my pc.I used the git clone command to do the cloning.
It is asking for passphrase for key, like below.What should, I enter for this?
Enter passphrase for key '/c/users//.ssh/id_rsa':

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ssh-agent doesn't work / save me from typing passphrase for git
After running
eval `ssh-agent -s`
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
and entering my passphrase, git still prompts me to enter the passphrase every time I perform a remote action.
To illustrate:
bash-4.1$ echo…

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Prompt for passphrase each session while access page with mutual/2 way authentication (with p12 certificate)
I have the following configuration:
Apache 2.2 with SSL, MySQL, PHP 5
I made protection of one page with mutual authentication (p12 client certificate). Now - you can access the page only if you have this certificate installed in your browser. While…

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