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There's no need for a new protocol; lots of websites manage to never store passwords today. I guess your protocol does provide some assurance that the other end isn't going to store anything but the hash. Unfortunately, anyone competent enough to implement it is already probably doing the right thing, and the people doing the wrong thing frequently have business reasons for doing it wrong.



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