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Re:How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016 by tokenizerrr on Thursday February 18, 2016 @04:11AM (#11124565)
Well, there's your problem. When dealing with passwords you don't want encryption. You want hashing.
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Re:How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016 by darkstar999 on Thursday February 18, 2016 @02:54PM (#11128761)
Hashing is considered one-way encryption, no?
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Re:How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016 by sarciszewski on Sunday February 21, 2016 @12:56AM (#11143500)
No, it's one-way cryptography, but it's not a form of encryption.

https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/08/you-wouldnt-base64-a-pass...

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