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    March 28

    Utah Spring Code Camp


    I am presenting at this year’s spring code camp.  I will be presenting on .net 3.5 and its impact on application architecture.  I’ll be doing my best to put together one heck of a presentation so be sure to mark your calendar to attend.  I don’t believe you have to go for the whole thing but it all looks interesting to me!

    --nz

    CODE CAMP OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
    What: Utah Spring Code Camp
    When:  April 14th 2007 9:00-5:00
    Where: Neumont University
    Registration: http://utahcodecamp.eventbrite.com

    The local .NET Users Group and SQL Server Users Group is conducting a “Code Camp” for local software programmers next month at Neumont University.  The code camp is by the community for the community.  Always free and Always for the community.

    We will have Sessions on .NET, SQL Server, and Oracle.  Presented by experts around the valley!  
     
    The Saturday, April 14th event is scheduled from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The conference is free please register at. http://utahcodecamp.eventbrite.com
    Lots of Sponsors and Lots of software and Tech Gadgets to giveaway!
    You can check out www.msutahevents.com  for a session schedule and speaker list for the Code Camp.

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    March 15

    Better Password Security

    Today while speaking with a colleague we were discussing a user for a website who had lost their password.  A trick I have done many times in the past was to copy the password hash from a user that I knew what the password was over the top of the user’s password that we didn’t know.  Then we simply log into that user with our password and change it.  That’s fairly unsecure!  So it hit me…a great idea! Use the username as a salt for the password hash!

    If you use the username for the salt then copying the password hash from one user to another will not work!  I don’t know if I am the first one to think of that or if someone has done that before but at least if I was the first one then maybe I can get credit for it and get to name it “ZauggHash Encoding”
    Nathan Zaugg
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