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in thread Did Perlmonks Ever Salt and Hash Their Password Database?

Well, true. It's not a one way encryption.

But does security by obscurity of the decryption method/password really count?

Cheers Rolf
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Re^4: Did Perlmonks Ever Salt and Hash Their Password Database?
by Jenda (Abbot) on Aug 23, 2016 at 12:45 UTC

    It's not security by obscurity unless you also succeed to steal the encryption/decryption key.

    Jenda
    Enoch was right!
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