Sentence examples for passwords are hashed from inspiring English sources

Even when passwords are hashed, the most popular algorithm remains MD5.

"User's passwords are hashed before we store them in our databases.

On the bright side, credit card information was not accessed, and passwords were hashed.

Some of the stolen passwords were hashed with SHA-1, while 32 million were hashed with bcrypt, Motherboard reports.

But a spokesperson for LeakBase disagreed, telling TechCrunch that the passwords were hashed with the MD5 algorithm, which is considered insecure.

Passwords normally are hashed using a cryptographic hash function before storing in a database.

Most websites keep usernames and passwords in master files that are "hashed" with software which encrypts both the username and the password together, so no one can see the plain-text version of either.

Passwords should be "hashed", a one-way process which transforms every password into a unique "hash", and ideally "salted", ensuring that even two identical passwords produce different hashes.

Multiple outlets reported that D'Angelo had first written in his blog post that the passwords were simply "hashed with a salt that varies for each user," but after critics pointed out that a simple hash wouldn't offer much protection, D'Angelo's revised post said the passwords had been "hashed using bcrypt …" which would make cracking them much more difficult.

The fact the passwords had been hashed means that they had been converted into a string of characters using a process that cannot be reversed to reveal the original text.

Alternatively, the user can press the password key (F2) before entering the password to indicate that the password should be hashed.