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by thebrain 2943 days ago
Because then you'd have to expose how you did the hashing.
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But I'll expose just how I hashed on client side, not how I hash on the server side. The only purpose of this is to protect the plaintext password of the user. I won't stop doing anything that I already do on the server site to protect these passwords.