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Date: 2010-09-08 04:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beautyofgrey.livejournal.com
Random stranger here, but they do not store your password. You must re-enter it everytime you crosspost.

They realized this was an issue early on and worked around it: http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/7298.html

It was resolved here: http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/16019.html
Edited Date: 2010-09-08 04:04 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-09-09 11:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com
They store a hashed version of the password-- I'm not sure if that means they can't recover it, but at least it means they're less likely to lose it by accident.

If I don't think I can trust someone with a password, I'm not going to trust their assurances that that they won't keep it.

Date: 2010-09-09 01:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beautyofgrey.livejournal.com
Honestly, I'm more likely to trust Dreamwidth with my password than Livejournal, but that's a personal preference based on my experiences with both communities and how the operators interact with the users.

Date: 2010-09-09 04:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beautyofgrey.livejournal.com
A developer answers the question here: http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/24656.html?thread=2859088#cmt2859088

"If you select the 'save password' option, then DW saves an encrypted version of the password. Now, because of the way LJ passwords work, that encrypted password is sufficient to get full access to your account. But it does mean that if, say, you use that same password for other things, then nobody would be able to get from the encrypted version to the plaintext password.

You can also choose not to save your password, in which case you'll be asked for your LJ password every time you crosspost. In that case, all the DW servers ever get is a one-time authentication token."

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