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Re:CBCrypt: Encrypt from the client rather than send passwor... by Stefan-H on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @07:00PM (#10343029)
Using a JS lib would not mitigate any risk here unless the compromising of the server that hosts the JS is separate from the compromsing of your web server.
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Re:CBCrypt: Encrypt from the client rather than send passwor... by k3d3 on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @07:06PM (#10343058)
It mitigates passive MITM attacks, for one.

On the other hand, there's nothing that's made _worse_ by choosing to do it that way. Plenty of things that are the same, some things better, but nothing worse.

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Re:CBCrypt: Encrypt from the client rather than send passwor... by Stefan-H on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @11:52AM (#10346720)
Hardly - if you are not using HTTPS in the first place then sending the hash across the wire instead of the password are the least of your worries.
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