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A secure service wouldn't have an easy way of getting at a user's password. They'd store the salted hash of a user's password, and not the password itself.
by yaks_hairbrush 7y ago
A secure service wouldn't have an easy way of getting at a user's password. They'd store the salted hash of a user's password, and not the password itself.
- discreditable 7y agoIf services were secure then password re-use would not be such a problem.
- jupp0r 7y agoYou mean hash it in the browser? That's rare. Otherwise, you have the plain text password in the request you do the hashing and writing the hash to storage in.