Only doing that won't help. You might as well be transmitting the password, since someone can just copy the hash and then it would be equivalent to having the p

Only doing that won't help. You might as well be transmitting the password, since someone can just copy the hash and then it would be equivalent to having the password. (Also known as a Pass the Hash attack, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_the_hash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_the_hash).