Wothe@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoAdd-on: same password, same identity.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square158fedilinkarrow-up11.32K
arrow-up11.32KimageAdd-on: same password, same identity.lemmy.worldWothe@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square158fedilink
minus-squarekamen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up36·1 year agoImagine a site telling you “Sorry, you can’t use asdf123 as your password: you’ve already used it on that other site”.
minus-squareA_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoThat’s not as far fetched as it sounds. Any website worth its salt will store your password as a hash, so if they started sharing the hashes with each other they could prevent you from reusing passwords without changing much security-wise
minus-squarekamen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoAny website worth its salt will salt the hash as well…
minus-squarekamen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThis was supposed to be a joke; of course it wouldn’t.
minus-squareJoeBigelow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoIt’s a pretty old meme, hunter11, but it checks out.
Imagine a site telling you “Sorry, you can’t use
asdf123
as your password: you’ve already used it on that other site”.That’s not as far fetched as it sounds. Any website worth its salt will store your password as a hash, so if they started sharing the hashes with each other they could prevent you from reusing passwords without changing much security-wise
Any website worth its salt will salt the hash as well…
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This was supposed to be a joke; of course it wouldn’t.
It’s a pretty old meme, hunter11, but it checks out.