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cors24457y*ehm* hey i think whatisyourip.com is giving faulty results, could you send me a screenshot so i can double check :D
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px0622467yDon't delude yourself into thinking that Base64 is an encryption standard, it's an encoding scheme and what you're doing isn't bad practice. It's extremely bad security.
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@Skayo no don't try, just do it. And don't ever tell anyone that you store passwords unencrypted, even if it makes for a good joke here. Someone might put two and two together and figure out what sites you run etc etc...
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I think you are confused mate. Base64 is encoding not encryption. It is an encoding that takes place to standardise the content before it is being encrypted or hashed.
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biglars2417yIf someone ever find out who you are, just calm them down by telling them you use md5 and not base64.
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Here it's even better we actually save them in plain text in the legacy project. Typical PHP security level.
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Skayo88607yTo all of you: I don't have any public sites. I only have some test logins wich use Base64 and I'm the only one who is registered.
I know a lot of ways to encrypt passwords but I am a bit lazy... -
@Skayo haha, not a valid reason. If your lazy just store them in clear text, it's the same thing.
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