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by swiftcoder 755 days ago
> the stored (hashed) password in your database

Hashed and salted

I hope

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Technically yes, of course, but if you’re using an algorithm that requires you to manually worry about salting then you’re probably doing it wrong. Hence, “hashed” with an algorithm like bcrypt or scrypt is good enough.