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The primary purpose is to reduce the impact of password reuse or the user interactively disclosing their password to an attacker. Primarily leaked password hashes and phishing attacks, but it also combats sslstrip style mitm attacks and keyloggers on public computers. Nobody is going around typing in ASPs.

It's not designed to mitigate your personal computer being compromised - the only solutions that can move the needle in that situation are far beyond anything normal folks are willing to put up with.



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