[squid-users] Re: Secure basic authentication. Is it possible?

From: Adam Aube <aaube01@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:29:01 -0400

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> If your only goal is to protect the password exchanges then using Digest
> authentication is an alternative.

The only problem with Digest authentication is that it is difficult to
integrate with a directory service backend.

Anyone concerned about password snooping with basic authentication should
lobby their browser vendor to add SSL support for proxies.

Adam
Received on Fri May 21 2004 - 08:30:10 MDT

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