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A browser has to be able to supply clear-text passwords to websites, so strong hashing and discarding the clear-text won't work in their use-case. Your router only need to authenticate your password, so it _should_ be using bcrypt/scrypt/pbkdf2 to hash the password and not storing it anywhere in clear-text.

Anyone noticed the smiley? Still, not protecting user passwords with a master-key makes it way too easy to read them. B2T now.

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