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[–] [email protected] 20 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

obligatory bcrypt is not encryption

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Correct but you also dont want an encrypted password. You want a hashed password.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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 🤷‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Encrypted is also the word to make people feel safer.