This is the phrasing from Twitter's actual blog post[0]: > We mask passwords through a process called hashing using a function known as bcrypt, which replaces

This is the phrasing from Twitter's actual blog post[0]: > We mask passwords through a process called hashing using a function known as bcrypt, which replaces the actual password with a random set of numbers and letters that are stored in Twitter’s system. Which is slightly better, I guess. [0] https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/keeping-your-account-secure.html https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/...