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Hell no they don't.

I worked at a larger bank that used rot13 to encrypt the RW passwords for the internal databases it connected to. Since risk management in this case included mortgage and credit card systems, it would have disastrous if there was any sort of compromise. The dev's excuse was, "We didn't have enough time to do proper password storage."



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