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by palant 1636 days ago
The client-side hashing is actually the part that keeps your master password a secret, from everyone including LastPass yourself. This makes sure that LastPass cannot decrypt your passwords despite them being stored there. The server-side part on the other hand is severely misimplemented and not much good to anyone. This is one of the issues I’ve written about here: https://palant.info/2018/07/09/is-your-lastpass-data-really-...