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Let's play the guessing game: by "encrypted" they mean MD5'd?

• Everlag 13y ago
  By encrypted they probably mean they applied the most potent of all cryptographic techniques: base64 encoding!
  • rocky1138 13y ago
    It would be hilarious if this is what it was and hackers couldn't figure it out and abandoned the hack because they're trying all these advanced techniques and none of it is working.
  • mattw1810 13y ago
    You must mean UTF-8 encryption
• kmfrk 13y ago
  rot13
• krallin 13y ago
  I received an email from them - the password was included in the email, in plaintext. So I don't know exactly what they mean, but it's at best symmetric encryption.
  • Zikes 13y ago
    I've got an account with them under two different email addresses, and have gone through the password change process with both. In neither case did I receive an email with my password in it.
  • Arnor 13y ago
    Symmetric Encryption means both sides can access the data. It's different from using a hash (like MD5 or the stronger SHA series) in that it can be reversed given the key. Ouch... that's oversimplified... Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric-key_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric-key_algorithm http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/cse207/w-se.pdf http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/cse207/w-se.pdf