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I know about digest-auth. Yes, it sends a hash (not encrypted password)
rather than the plaintext. But it sends it every time which they admit
isn't terribly secure, it is subject to dictionary attacks (with new
data every time the nonce expires), and it uses the deprecated MD-5 as
opposed to SHA-1. It also doesn't *seem* (in my quick test) to be
supported by IE, which knocks out a large part of the net. (Always a
tip-off when folks use the phrase "supported by modern browsers," I've
done it myself.:)
Good security requires state. Bad security leaves your login passwords
lying around. Using a cookie to maintain a timed-out login session seems
the best way to do good and avoid bad. And since I don't believe that
RFC 2109 violates web architecture, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Happy new year.
/r$
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Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect
DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com
XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html
XML Security Overview http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html
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