still more Digest Authentication comments

HTTP already uses MIME-64 encoding for converting octects to characters;
I'd suggest that re-using the same encoding scheme would make sense
(since servers are likely to include the code already, and it's also
more compact that 4bits->1octect encoding).

Mike Cowlishaw
IBM UK Labs.

Received on Wednesday, 22 March 1995 08:44:33 UTC