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Just because a website can email you your password doesn't mean they store them in plain text. They can store them in a reversible encryption scheme like rijnda
by jbhelms 15y ago
Just because a website can email you your password doesn't mean they store them in plain text. They can store them in a reversible encryption scheme like rijndael.
- gregatragenet 15y agoIf a hacker can steal your user database they as-likely-as-not have access to your reversible encryption keys. On top of that it's bad form to mail a user their plaintext password back to them.. I don't need my password crossing third-party networks and SMTP servers in plaintext.