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Or a better question: why are social security numbers used as a password but yet stored by every financial institution you interact with? If only we had some w

Or a better question: why are social security numbers used as a password but yet stored by every financial institution you interact with? If only we had some way to verify an identity while keeping important information private- oh wait, we do, public-key cryptography.

vageli 9y ago
They could even hash the number and it would STILL be more secure than storing the raw string in plaintext.