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Re:Ask HN: Suggest features that you would love to see in a new social... on Monday April 09, 2018 @06:17PM (#16797469)
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Re:TMobile confirms they store passwords in plaintext, don't see why i... on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:44PM (#16777739)
I'm wondering. Why would encrypting the password be any more worse than hashing ? If the private key of encryption is well kept, I don't see why they couldn't do that.

I understand though that no one being able to know the password except the user is utmost security, but why not encrypting it ?