- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:10:24 -0600 (CST)
- To: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Scott Lawrence wrote: > > Let me take one more stab at this. > > My proposed change is that we remove the problematic headers from > the entity digest calculation and replace them with the use of a > client-generated nonce. > Certainly a client nonce makes sense for digest-ng. You have argued more strenuously than anyone about the need to start over with a new scheme. I think that is the consensus that has emerged. Strip down digest to its minimal original intent of being a replacement for Basic. And start again with digest-ng. There is no way to develop a completely incompatible scheme and call it digest. The stripped down digest will be valuable. It is easy to list tons of problems it will NOT solve -- and tons of problems that with only a "little tweak" it could solve. But please don't, as we are all aware what it doesn't do and those little tweaks turned out to be a slipery slope. Lets solve those problems in new scheme. John Franks john@math.nwu.edu
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