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Because it's a nonsensical point. You trade one very simple thing to worry about – password hashing algorithms, for which you can count all variations in the past ten years on one hand – with a massively complex system like OAuth (1.0? 1.0a? 2.0?), which in turn relies on TLS for transport security, for which best practices change every two or three months.

If bcrypt gets broken tomorrow, your passwords are safe until you have a data breach. If OAuth gets broken tomorrow, you're immediately at risk.



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