RE: [SQU] Secure Authentication

From: Chemolli Francesco (USI) <ChemolliF@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 08:58:22 +0200

> Byron Peterson wrote:
> >
> > Are there any ways to do proxy authentication securely?
>
> If you are talking about not sending the login+password in plain text:
>
> Sponsor implementing digest authentication in Squid, and then
> make sure
> the users are using browser versions which are new enought to support
> it..

In this respect, the NTLM project is sort-of-secure, as the client-squid
protocol uses a challenge-response system. It only works with Internet
Exploder of course. Check the ntlm-devel-projects. There are plans
to extend it to support digest authentication, but first we want
to get NTLM right.

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