Dot.@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoThe Club Penguin Experience got breached.feddit.orgimagemessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down18file-text
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minus-squarekate@lemmy.uhhoh.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·7 days agoobligatory bcrypt is not encryption
minus-squarewholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·6 days agoCorrect but you also dont want an encrypted password. You want a hashed password.
minus-squarekate@lemmy.uhhoh.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 days agothis is true, and the name bcrypt can be misleading to non experts. i don’t blame them for getting this wrong in a pr statement 🤷♀️
minus-squarewholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 days agoEncrypted is also the word to make people feel safer.
obligatory bcrypt is not encryption
Correct but you also dont want an encrypted password. You want a hashed password.
this is true, and the name bcrypt can be misleading to non experts. i don’t blame them for getting this wrong in a pr statement 🤷♀️
Encrypted is also the word to make people feel safer.