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TL;DR: Bit values of passwords are "weirdly" distributed and hash functions (and thus HMAC) are generally believed to deal better with them.
Why is HMAC?
Presumably originally the idea was to improve on previous designs which were all very hash-focused. People wanted to use hash functions in some way to process passwords. But the designers of ...
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