Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. Don’t use a password there that you’ve used anywhere else.

  • voxel
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    1 year ago

    hashing on client side is considered a bad idea and almost never done.
    you actually send your password “in plain text” every time you sign up.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not a bad idea and it is often done, just not in a browser/webapp context.

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          1 year ago

          Sorry, I should have included an example in my comment to clarify, but I was in a rush.

          HMAC is a widely used technique relies on hashing of a shared secret for verifying authenticity and integrity of a message, for example.