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Can you elaborate? I don't know any way to take a hashed password and get the plaintext version. When you log into any app i've worked on, we hash the pw you
by samspot 14y ago
Can you elaborate? I don't know any way to take a hashed password and get the plaintext version. When you log into any app i've worked on, we hash the pw you send and match it with the one in the db. This is why you have to get a password reset most of the time, because the company literally does not know your password.
- brian_cloutier 14y agoA cryptographic hash is one-directional (among other things). However, encryption is the the same as hashing, and it can be decrypted. It is possible that they are not hashing your password, but encrypting it, before they put it into the database.
- BHSPitMonkey 14y agoEncrypted, not hashed. As in, encrypted with a key that can be used to then decrypt it later.
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