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What Is Digest Authentication? |
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Answer» An authentication mechanism in which a Web application authenticates itself to a Web server by SENDING the server a message digest along with its HTTP request message. The digest is computed by employing a one-way hash ALGORITHM to a concatenation of the HTTP request message and the client's PASSWORD. The digest is typically much smaller than the HTTP request and doesn't contain the password. An authentication mechanism in which a Web application authenticates itself to a Web server by sending the server a message digest along with its HTTP request message. The digest is computed by employing a one-way hash algorithm to a concatenation of the HTTP request message and the client's password. The digest is typically much smaller than the HTTP request and doesn't contain the password. |
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