We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it

Re:We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it by sigzero on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:55PM (#24379267)

I think he was only saying it was "good" because it had those elements and not because "P@ssw0rd" is a "good password".

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Re:We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it by prophesi on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:06PM (#24379363)

Yeah I think that whole paragraph needs to be rewritten; one could also come away thinking that substituting characters in a word with symbols is also a "good" password.

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Re:We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it by edoceo on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:59PM (#24379300)

I thought so too. Good as in, example of what a good-ish password might look like, not this is literally a good password

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Re:We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it by kohtatsu on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:59PM (#24379306)

8 characters is short, especially when all the characters are directly derived from a word.

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