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Passwords sent as plaintext? (infosec.pub)
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I tried logging in on browser and I had inspected the request. My password was sent in plaintext. Is this a infosec.pub issue or a Lemmy one?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The first paragraph is correct, but your second paragraph is not. A cryptographic hash function is a lossy one-way function. Knowing exactly how something was hashed does not mean you can turn the hash back into the starting value again.