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by tokenizerrr 3781 days ago
Well, there's your problem. When dealing with passwords you don't want encryption. You want hashing.
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Hashing is considered one-way encryption, no?
No, it's one-way cryptography, but it's not a form of encryption.

https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/08/you-wouldnt-base64-a-pass...