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Re:A Password-Storage Field Study with Freelance Developers ... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:37PM (#19324549)
MD5 is a little better than plaintext. Difficult passwords are still difficult when you know their MD5 hash.

Base64... is actually plaintext; that's much, much worse.

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Re:A Password-Storage Field Study with Freelance Developers ... by penagwin on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:07AM (#19325902)
Yeah MD5 is better to a degree, although 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 is still the most common password (md5 hashed) hehe :P
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