Birdwatch Note Rating
2025-02-17 17:53:17 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 6A70EA4C7A16858CBB7FEBBE9E3710084FC29239A8404CDACB54ED4AC57B05E3
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Original Note:
Websites do usually send a “plain text” password (with encryption over the wire, usually TLS). Not doing so would defeat the purpose of hashing/salting as that would allow anyone to use leaked data to sign in to a web service – sending it as if it’s recently hashed password. https://blog.1password.com/what-is-hashed-password/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
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