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Re:Plain Text Offenders - Did you just email me back my own ... by r_kaup on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @09:19AM (#2414959)
Can someone explain to me why it is so important to hash passwords before storing them?
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Re:Plain Text Offenders - Did you just email me back my own ... by temptemptemp13 on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @09:41AM (#2415033)
The passwords can be stolen and then you royally screwed your users who trusted you.

http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/12/15/never-store-pass...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/287517/encrypting-hashing...

http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2001-11/pdfs/singer...

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