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Apr 27, 2026 · Backend Development

Turn Your Android Phone into an SMS Gateway with HTTPSMS and a Simple HTTP API

HTTPSMS is an open‑source SMS gateway that lets an Android phone act as a self‑hosted send/receive endpoint, controlled via a lightweight HTTP API, offering multi‑language SDKs, Docker deployment, AES‑256 encryption, rate limiting, message expiry and a feature‑by‑feature comparison with Twilio, cloud SMS services and DIY GSM modems.

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Turn Your Android Phone into an SMS Gateway with HTTPSMS and a Simple HTTP API
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Aug 29, 2022 · Information Security

Why Can a ZIP Archive Have Two Valid Passwords? The PBKDF2 Secret Explained

An experiment by a security researcher shows that AES‑256 encrypted ZIP files can be opened with two completely different passwords because passwords longer than 64 bytes are hashed with PBKDF2, turning the hash into the actual key used for encryption and decryption.

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Why Can a ZIP Archive Have Two Valid Passwords? The PBKDF2 Secret Explained