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Zero knowledge authentication
(lemm.ee)
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Thanks for your reply. The idea of zero-knowledge authentication is that the password never touches the server. Instead, the user can prove that they know the password when logging in by solving a challenge. This enables the user to log in from any new device without the need to transfer keys between them. I'll take a closer look at your suggestions though. Thanks again!
All you need in order to do this is for the client to encrypt their password before sending it to the server. Often services that advertise "zero knowledge" platforms that use end-to-end encryption will authenticate their users in this way. If this were a website for example, there could be a javascript/wasm library used within the client page that encrypts their password before a login request is sent to the server.