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Re:Open ID Is A Nightmare by adambyrtek on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @05:38PM (#1916046)
Who is frightened of that? The problem discussed here is with managing logins information for different sites, not hashing on the server side.
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Re:Open ID Is A Nightmare by joedaltonwallas on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @07:11PM (#1916281)
He talks about it as a nightmare wich implies that storing emails/hashes is worse.

I think that storing them is not more difficult, it is more convenient and secure (of course this is relative). But maybe I am missing something about the security of this scheme.

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