Just take the string as bytes and hash it ffs

  • frezik@midwest.social
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    24 days ago

    You could salt it. Distributing a unique salt doesn’t help attackers much. Salt is for preventing precomputing attacks against a whole database. Attacking one password hash when you know the salt is still infeasible.

    It’s one of those things in security where there’s no particular reason to give your attacker information, but if you’ve otherwise done your job, it won’t be a big deal if they do.

    You don’t hash in the browser because it doesn’t help anything.

    • FierySpectre@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      It helps against the server being able to read the password, so a bad actor (either the website itself or after a hack) could read your password. Which isn’t bad if you’re using good password hygiene with random passwords, but that sadly is not the norm.

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          24 days ago

          For that particular website yes, but a salted client side hash is worthless on a different website.

          Edit: plus even unsalted it would only work if the algorithm is the same and less iterations are done