Comment Re:Encrypted? Hashed? (Score 1, Insightful) 207
This has all happened before, and it will all happen again.
Hashed passwords provide a degree of protection, so long as you salt the hash, and store a different salt for each password (for maximum protection).
Any programmer that doesn't understand salts, hashing, and encrypting should not bother making software that handles logins, period.
Hashed passwords provide a degree of protection, so long as you salt the hash, and store a different salt for each password (for maximum protection).
Any programmer that doesn't understand salts, hashing, and encrypting should not bother making software that handles logins, period.