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> A compromised website that was well designed

Ah yes, "if nobody makes any mistake there's no problem", that's worked so well forever hasn't it?

> Client-side hashing means that, yes, initially the website is not receiving plaintext passwords, but a few quick code edits to maybe add some logging JavaScript or disable the client-side hashing implementation will fix that.

That makes quite literally no sense, did you miss the entire thing and go off with whatever?

The request here is to make the browser's support for HTTP authentication better. The entire point is that there is no "quick code edit" without owning the entire browser at which point you're quite thoroughly owned anyway.




I don’t think he understands salts or really hashing at all and this is messing up the logic in his posts.




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