Re:1 million accounts leaked in megahack on banks, websites
by Spoom on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @11:28AM
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Encrypting a password on the client-side means that all a cracker needs to login is the hashed password, which is exactly what they would get from a database dump, thereby bypassing the entire point of hashing the password in the first place. (Yes, I'm aware you could use a different salt on the server than the client, but that would require that the client-side encryption be reversible, which is perhaps even more problematic.)
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