• bjorney@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    Client side verification is just security by obscurity, which gains you very little.

    If someone is capable of MITM attacking a user and fetching a password mid-transit to the server over HTTPS, they are surely capable of popping open devtools and reverse engineering your cryptographic code to either a) uncover the original password, or b) just using the encrypted credentials directly to authenticate with your server without ever having known the password in the first place