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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion docs/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/_includes/about/authentication/password-storage.adoc
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Expand Up @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Throughout the years the standard mechanism for storing passwords has evolved.
In the beginning passwords were stored in plain text.
The passwords were assumed to be safe because the data store the passwords were saved in required credentials to access it.
However, malicious users were able to find ways to get large "data dumps" of usernames and passwords using attacks like SQL Injection.
As more and more user credentials became public security experts realized we needed to do more to protect users passwords.
As more and more user credentials became public security experts realized we needed to do more to protect users' passwords.

Developers were then encouraged to store passwords after running them through a one way hash such as SHA-256.
When a user tried to authenticate, the hashed password would be compared to the hash of the password that they typed.
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