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0 pointslaut17y ago0 comments

I agree that storing passwords in plaintext is an anti pattern. But with a one-way-password-encryption setup you need a password resetting system, which is more than 5-10 lines of code.

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tptacek17y ago

You need many of those same lines of code to do password recovery if you store plaintext.

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0 pointslaut17y ago0 comments

I agree that storing passwords in plaintext is an anti pattern. But with a one-way-password-encryption setup you need a password resetting system, which is more than 5-10 lines of code.

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tptacek17y ago

You need many of those same lines of code to do password recovery if you store plaintext.

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