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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: WebDAV


From: Charles Duffy
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: WebDAV
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:37:11 -0500

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 14:26, Robin Green wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:00:37PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> >  Can we use 
> > digest?  http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html#digest
> 
> Hmm, sounds like it might actually be more secure than HTTPS in practice
> for this purpose, because the password can't be stolen even by a man
> in the middle, and nor can a man in the middle interfere with a request.

There's no reason not to use digest authentication over HTTPS; they're
completely orthogonal.





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