• KISSmyOS@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    I’ve worked as a sysadmin for 4 years and was recently offered a position as IT security consultant, and I don’t know how password hashing works. (Don’t worry, I rejected the position)

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Thank you for not becoming yet another turtle on a post.

      Plus it wasn’t even how the hashing works, just explaining how a system can check if a password is correct without decrypting the password. They’re getting millions of my tax dollars to build this IT system for the military and they don’t even understand that one-way hashes exist.