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Digest access authentication

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Digest access authentication is one of the defined methods a web page can negotiate credentials with a web user (who uses the HTTP protocol). This method builds on the old basic authentication scheme and adds the capability of establish user identity without sending clear text passwords over the net. For this mean, it uses a scheme of different MD5 hashes.

This method is defined by RFC 2618.

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