Remember, as the defender, you must win 100% of the time. A hacker only needs to win once.

Difference between encrypting and hashing

An encrypted password is like anything else which has been encrypted: it has been rendered unreadable through a process which used an extra piece of secret data (the key) and which can be reversed with knowledge of the same key (or of a distinct, mathematically related key, in the case of asymmetric encryption).

For password hashing, on the other hand, there is no key. The hashing process is like a meat grinder: there is no key, everybody can operate it, but there is no way to get your cow back in full moo-ing state. Whereas encryption would be akin to locking the cow in a stable.

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