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by Mogzol 1718 days ago
Hashing on the client still seems redundant though. In the end, whatever value is sent to the server is essentially plaintext, because it's all an attacker needs to know to authenticate. Whether it's the raw text the user typed or some transformed version of it isn't really relevant.
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In a world where password reuse is rampant, whether it's the raw text the user typed or a hard-to-reverse transformation on it is absolutely relevant to the user, just not to the service provider.