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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

hashing on client side is considered a bad idea and almost never done.
you actually send your password "in plain text" every time you sign up.

[–] sleepy555 3 points 1 year ago

Really everytime you log in too.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you give an example where this is done?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.