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by lxgr 2498 days ago
True, this would defend against many practical attacks and is a huge security win by itself.

I'd just be careful about overly relying on this property or calling it anything like mutual authentication:

If an attacker can make an educated guess about a user's account contents, they could still convince them to provide additional personal information once they let their guard down after authenticating.