[Day 17] Secure Coding

December 17, 2022

For this challenge, The focus remains on secure coding practices as I look at methods to help file validation with user input. THM believes that regex is a tool to be used in helping secure some applications, of couse THM also believes there are other techniques and no one silver bullet.

Flags

Filtering for Usernames: How many usernames fit the syntax above?

8

egrep '^[a-zA-Z0-9]{6,12}$' strings

Filtering for Usernames: One username consists of a readable word concatenated with a number. What is it?

user35

Filtering for Emails: How many emails fit the syntax above?

11

egrep '^.+@.+.com$' strings

Filtering for Emails: How many unique domains are there?

8

Filtering for Emails: What is the domain of the email with the local-part "lewisham44"?

amg.com

Filtering for Emails: What is the domain of the email with the local-part "maxximax"?

fedfull.com

Filtering for Emails: What is the local-part of the email with the domain name "hotmail.com"?

hussain.volt

Filtering for URLs: How many URLs fit the syntax provided?

16

egrep '^http(s)?.{3}.+..+$' strings

Filtering for URLs: How many of these URLs start with "https"?

7

egrep '^https.{3}.+..+$' strings