Comment by DrWangerBanger on 06/05/2019 at 17:40 UTC

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Have you always done this? Did you store passwords in plaintext at some point in the past?

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Comment by spladug at 06/05/2019 at 18:20 UTC

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They've been hashed with bcrypt for the past 7.5 years https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/lj0cb/reddit%5C_change%5C_passwords%5C_are%5C_now%5C_hashed%5C_with%5C_bcrypt/[1][2]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/lj0cb/reddit%5C_change%5C_passwords%5C_are%5C_now%5C_hashed%5C_with%5C_bcrypt/

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/lj0cb/reddit_change_passwords_are_now_hashed_with_bcrypt/

The comment section in that thread goes into some of the ancient history from before that point.

Comment by champak256 at 06/05/2019 at 19:33 UTC

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They did ~12+ years ago

Comment by reseph at 06/05/2019 at 18:16 UTC

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https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/lj0cb/reddit_change_passwords_are_now_hashed_with_bcrypt/c2t5bgx/