[squid-users] Re: Secure basic authentication. Is it possible?

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> If your only goal is to protect the password exchanges then using Digest
> authentication is an alternative.

The only problem with Digest authentication is that it is difficult to
integrate with a directory service backend.

Anyone concerned about password snooping with basic authentication should
lobby their browser vendor to add SSL support for proxies.

Adam
Received on Fri May 21 2004 - 08:30:10 MDT