Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. Don't use a password there that you've used anywhere else.
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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It's not a bad idea and it is often done, just not in a browser/webapp context.
Can you give an example where this is done?
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.