Re: potential security holes in digest authorization

>
>Fair enough.  How about using the server-name in place of realm, then?
>(After all, it's possible two webmasters might choose the same realm
>name on different servers, isn't it!) That would render the same
>username/password combination unique on different machines.  So the
>stored hash would be:
>        H(<username> : <server-domain-name> : <password>)

This isn't any better, given that one user may have multiple occurences of
the same name and password for different realms. (It happens!) The best
would be a combination of host domain name and realm name.

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Received on Monday, 17 July 1995 07:58:53 UTC