Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 07:09:37 -0400
From: Steve Weyer <weyer_at_kagi.com>
>I assume this isn't SSL functionality for https:
Indeed.
>or would this just be used for password challenges?
MD5 is classically used in various cryptography protocols (such as
SSH handshake).
>the usual one uses a simple base64 encoding, and there have not situations
>(AFAIK) needing more sophisticated challenge responses.
Well, there are two HTTP authentication methods, Basic and Digest.
Digest uses MD5. However, most browsers don't support Digest
authentication. Apache does.
Ref: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2617.html
Paul
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