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Software that generates and stores a distinct random password per account behind a single master secret. For Usenet accounts the practical benefit is blunting credential stuffing, since a password reused nowhere else cannot be harvested from another site's breach. It also makes long provider-issued NNTP passwords workable, given that newsreaders store credentials in plaintext or lightly obscured configuration files.
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