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

  • wim@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

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

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        9 months 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.