RFC 2617: HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Ac...
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... By modern cryptographic standards Digest Authentication is weak. But for a large range ...
... The bottom line is that *any* compliant implementation will be relatively weak by cryptographic standards, but *any* compliant implementation will be far superior to Basic Authentication. ...



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