Birdwatch Note Rating
2025-02-17 17:45:53 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 803A1079241C6E43E80E29DED17CB0AC5DCFD4B272577E0426F05DFEAFF0BDC6
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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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