Extinction looms for FTAV’s Mastodon presence

  • kspatlas@artemis.camp
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    1 year ago

    This is incorrect, passwords should be hashed, not encrypted. Hashing is only one way (unless you use a terrible hashing algorithm or your attackers have access to a quantum computer), these hashes are also often salted, which means adding extra data to the hash to protect against some attacks