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View submission: How to keep your Reddit account safe
Have you always done this? Did you store passwords in plaintext at some point in the past?
Comment by spladug at 06/05/2019 at 18:20 UTC
23 upvotes, 3 direct replies
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]
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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Comment by reseph at 06/05/2019 at 18:16 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies