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> There are password verification protocols where the password is not revealed to the server either, which is much more secure as it means that you’re not at the mercy of whether the sever operator follows good security practices about not saving your password in plain text somewhere.

Well, the most common such protocol is TOTP, which still requires the server to store your full password. In that sense it's worse than a naive password exchange, which only requires the server to store your hashed password.

There are other password protocols that require neither transmission nor server retention of the full password, but it seems worth noting that the protocol we actually have didn't bother with that.




Does it matter if the pw is stored salted and hashed?


Yes, that's why we do that.

I'm not sure what you want to ask.




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