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Meteor.js is both impressive and terrifying. (I've only watched the screencast but, seemingly raw, database access from the user side is... eyebrow raising).

I'm not confident implementing SRP in Javascript provides any real advantage. From a trust standpoint, if you're going to use authentication code pushed to you, you're already all-in. The reason I advocate SRP on the web (via a browser implementation) is because 1) people reuse passwords and 2) I think it's become clear we can't trust web services, even big names, to handle passwords securely. We also can't trust corporations, public access machines and schools etc. not to strip SSL wholesale. We also shouldn't give bad actors the opportunity to put subtle backdoors in to authentication code of compromised servers.




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