On: LinkedIn password leak

[kazinator]

Nitpicking. Even the Unix guys, whose line editing language you're using there, called the password hashing function "crypt"; everyone knows what it means.

[cyphar → kazinator]

"crypt" = "cryptographic hash" != "encryption".

Not to mention that someone might get the wrong idea and decide that encryption (or single-round hashing) is good enough.

[kazinator → cyphar]

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?crypt%283%29

   NAME
       crypt -- Trapdoor encryption

Linux man page:

   NAME

       crypt, crypt_r - password and data encryption

Solaris 10 man page:

   NAME

       crypt - string encoding function

Darwin:

   DESCRIPTION
       The crypt() function performs password encryption ...

[cyphar → kazinator]

To be fair, "trapdoor encryption" == "hash".