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[โ€“] kalpol@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The point is that they shouldn't know the password to compare it to another user's password. So at best it is not salted and at worst it's not encrypted.

[โ€“] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Passwords are anyway obsolete in the near future, with big corps and their Quantum computers. Then are only physical tokens a valid methode.