Birdwatch Note Rating
2025-02-17 23:54:12 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 9979267886FA03A3BEC27D3AB594A4505BA0616A89E2391D407C77C1A260A1C9
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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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