- From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:59:54 +1200
- To: hallam@gmail.com, julian.reschke@gmx.de
- Cc: http-auth@ietf.org, public-identity@w3.org, saag@ietf.org, websec@ietf.org
Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> writes: >what would we want HTTP authentication to look like? I have a suggestion for what it shouldn't look like: Any method that hands over the password (or a password-equivalent like a password in hashed form) as current browsers do should be banned outright, and anyone who implements hand-over-the-password should killed and eaten to prevent them from passing on the genes. The only permitted auth.form should be a dynamic, cryptographic mutual auth. that authenticates both the client and the server. There are endless designs for this sort of thing around so the precise form isn't too important, as long as it's not hand-over-the-password. Peter.
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