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by CSDude 4602 days ago
Yes in a way, but actually no, it is hashed with some other values.
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StavrosK 4602 days ago
It's both hashed and the first few chars (four, IIRC) of the hash are transmitted, so it's really unlikely that one will be able to brute-force it.
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