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*DO NOT REGISTER! Well, you can, but, at this point,
you really don't get anything by doing so except another account
floating around the internet. Until I can provide you something more
concrete as a service or product that adds value and incentive to
sign-up as a member of my website... why bother? Until then, I'll
continue to use my own membership account to update things.
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*Secrets in this system are encrypted using a
secure hashing algorithm and salt value. If you are
not familiar with this process, basically your
secret is communicated to my web server, which
automatically adds a unique value to the secret, and
then it jumbles it all up using a very
secure hash algorithm
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which is then stored in my database along with your member registration information.
Once your secret is hashed, there is no way to unhash it. So, if I look at your password
in the database, I have no way of knowing what it is. If someone else were to ever get
a peek at my data, they would have no way of knowing what it is. The addition of a
salt value
means that even if someone retreived your hashed secret from my database and knew the encryption
algorithm and they hashed every password on the planet, they would not be able to match
the secret from my database, since it also has a second unique value hashed within it.
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Go ahead and crack my secret: 4216CD59543607538CD7459B7C21BB84Y0B76CA9
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