Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. - Lemmy.world
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Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. Don’t use a password there that you’ve used anywhere else.

This thread is frustrating. Everyone seems more interested in nitpicking the specifics of what OP is saying and are ignoring that a forum sends you your password (not an automatically generated one) in an email on registration.

  • jormaig@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    But your password should never reach the server. It should be hashed already at the client and then salted at the server with a random hash. Then you store the salted hash