Dot.@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agoThe Club Penguin Experience got breached.message-squaremessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down18file-text
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minus-squarekate@lemmy.uhhoh.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down1·27 days agoobligatory bcrypt is not encryption
minus-squarewholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·26 days agoCorrect but you also dont want an encrypted password. You want a hashed password.
minus-squarekate@lemmy.uhhoh.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·26 days agothis is true, and the name bcrypt can be misleading to non experts. i don’t blame them for getting this wrong in a pr statement 🤷♀️
minus-squarewholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·26 days agoEncrypted is also the word to make people feel safer.
obligatory bcrypt is not encryption
Correct but you also dont want an encrypted password. You want a hashed password.
this is true, and the name bcrypt can be misleading to non experts. i don’t blame them for getting this wrong in a pr statement 🤷♀️
Encrypted is also the word to make people feel safer.