Digest authentication
HTTP Digest authentication is an improvement over the regular unencrypted HTTP Basic authentication mechanism, allowing user identity to be established securely without having to send a password over the network. HTTP Digest authentication is an application of MD5 cryptographic hashing with the use of the nonce value (for more information on the nonce value, refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce) to prevent cryptanalysis.
The following auth_param
parameters are available for configuring HTTP Digest authentication helpers:
auth_param digest program COMMAND auth_param digest utf8 on|off auth_param digest children NUMBER [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N] auth_param digest realm STRING auth_param digest ...
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