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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by ribosometronome on Friday July 31, 2020 @09:40PM (#24016544)
Wouldn't that allow for a compromised database to leak the information a nefarious user needs to log into accounts? Compared to needing to find a collision if a database of hashes leaked?
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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by nicoburns on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:37PM (#24017229)
I think client-side password hashing is generally in addition to server-side hashing. Not instead of it.
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