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This is really good, and I applaud your efforts in that site in general! My one suggestion would be to explain the term "representation" a little better to non-devs so they understand why the secure technique is secure. I like to use the term "one-way encryption" so that it's clearly not some simple derivation of a password, but a mathematical process with proven difficulty and uncertainty when reversing.


I thought of my mom and dad reading this and what they would best understand. I'm worried using something like "one-way encryption" would have their eyes glaze over :)


Probably. What about something to the effect of just adding, "The representation is created by shuffling and encrypting the password over and over so there's no way to reverse the process" or something like that?




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