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s/encrypted/hashed/

• kazinator 10y ago
  Nitpicking. Even the Unix guys, whose line editing language you're using there, called the password hashing function "crypt"; everyone knows what it means.
  • cyphar 10y ago
    "crypt" = "cryptographic hash" != "encryption". Not to mention that someone might get the wrong idea and decide that encryption (or single-round hashing) is good enough.
    • kazinator 10y ago
      https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?crypt%283%29 https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?crypt%283%29 NAME crypt -- Trapdoor encryption Linux man page: NAME crypt, crypt_r - password and data encryption Solaris 10 man page: NAME crypt - string encoding function Darwin: DESCRIPTION The crypt() function performs password encryption ...
      • cyphar 10y ago
        To be fair, "trapdoor encryption" == "hash".