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honeypot.net
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| | Passwords should be set, not sent - and other things I thought about when someone talked about password-emailing as a natural part of the user registration. I'm no security expert, but that's a big n...
| | blog.josefsson.org
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| | myers.io
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| | Every so often I see posts on Stack Exchange, or Hacker News where someone has figured out that their passwords are being sent to the server and the server can see them! The logic that we see is that if the password is hashed client side, then only the hash needs to be sent to the server, so the server never knows the password. Unfortunately, I sometimes even see this go one step further when people suggest that with this arrangement, HTTPS isnt required. Wrong.
| | qsantos.fr
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| [AI summary] The article discusses the security implications of client-side password hashing, arguing that it can be secure when combined with memory-hard functions and proper implementation.