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by deepbreath 2970 days ago
But the password is only known to the client?
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Only if the server only keeps around the hash -- which is why I said there are trade-offs to be made. The point I was making was that the mere fact that you're sending a hash does not trigger the "hash-becomes-password" issue; that's a result of secondary constraints imposed on the problem.