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Comment by coolThingsFirst

10 months ago

> Like the traditional password authentication approach, the user and the authority (server) still needs to agree on a common secret key.

Not sure what you mean by this, the server checks the hashed version of the password.

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dogacel  10 months ago

Hashing is done before storing the secret on the server side. Therefore they still need to communicate regarding the intial secret.

rgthyjuk  10 months ago

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