August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
314 pages
8h 9m
English
Digest authentication is an authentication mechanism that uses a one-way cryptographic hash of the password and additional data. With this mechanism, the developer does not need to use a secure transport mechanism to protect login credentials. This is because this mechanism already provides the security. When a user sends a digest to a server, the digest authentication needs a clear-text password available in order to digest and validate the access, comparing the clear-text password sent with the password saved on the server.
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