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As documented here, wordpress cookies name have HASH part. I wonder to know what is its use-case?

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  • It's there in the docs you linked: "It’s quite hard to reverse a hash (bordering on practical infeasibility with today’s computers). [...] WordPress uses the two cookies to bypass the password entry portion of wp-login.php."
    – Pat J
    Mar 16, 2022 at 17:32
  • I know why cookie data is hashed, my question is bout cookie's name.
    – Mohammad Ali Akbari
    Mar 17, 2022 at 17:49

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Hash is used to encrypt the data saved in cookies, So, you don’t have to worry about someone getting your username and password by reading the cookie data.

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