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minus-squareGolfNovemberUniformlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down5·3 months agoAny kind of encryption requires storing the key in plain text. Still nice to see Meta being fined though.
minus-squareFrederikNJS@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoThe author of the article is clearly just confusing “encryption”, “cryptography” and “hashing”. Reading the full article makes it clear that the intention was to salt and hash the passwords, not encrypting them.
Any kind of encryption requires storing the key in plain text. Still nice to see Meta being fined though.
The author of the article is clearly just confusing “encryption”, “cryptography” and “hashing”. Reading the full article makes it clear that the intention was to salt and hash the passwords, not encrypting them.