Why wordpress cookies name contains HASH

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

Topic cookies Wordpress

Category Web


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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