In the online world, passwords play a critical role in keeping your data and other important information safe. For this reason, ensuring your passwords remain secure is critical. If not, the consequences can be catastrophic — think the Sony hacks of 2011. Hashed password solutions fall short Many password solutions simply are not good enough and put your data and resources at risk. Let’s take a look at a few examples. Plain text passwords As its name infers, a plain text password makes use of only letters. Should a hacker gain access to passwords such as these, they can easily pose as a user on your system. Often, plain text passwords are replicated across other logins as well, as users don’t want to have to remember multiple passwords for different sites or applications. Guess what? That just gives a hacker access to those applications as well. One way hash With a one-way hash password, a server does not store plain text passwords to authenticate a user. Here, a password...
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