It prevents transmission of clear text passwords over the network by encrypting authentication messages between clients and servers.

通过对客户端和服务器之间的身份验证消息进行加密，它可以防止在网络上使用明文来传输密码。

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Instead, the clear-text passwords are hashed using an MD5 hash algorithm by the plug-in applications and are stored in this hashed form in the database.

插件应用程序使用MD 5散列算法对明文密码进行散列计算，并在数据库中存储散列形式的密码。

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We assume that you will be using a test registry with users whose authentication details are not sensitive, and hence the use of plain-text passwords is acceptable.

我们假定您将与其身份验证详细信息不敏感的用户一起使用测试注册中心，因此，可以接受纯文本密码。

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It joins other account-recovery features such as the ubiquitous "forgot my password" and security questions, as well as less conventional methods, like identifying friends' faces in pictures or recovering passwords via text message.

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After making a copy of the file, the hacker ran it through a code-breaking program that exposed the passwords as plain text.

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