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RFC 7804
Title: Salted Challenge Response HTTP Authentication
Mechanism
Author: A. Melnikov
Status: Experimental
Stream: IETF
Date: March 2016
Mailbox: [email protected]
Pages: 18
Characters: 39440
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-httpauth-scram-auth-15.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7804
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7804
This specification describes a family of HTTP authentication
mechanisms called the Salted Challenge Response Authentication
Mechanism (SCRAM), which provides a more robust authentication
mechanism than a plaintext password protected by Transport Layer
Security (TLS) and avoids the deployment obstacles presented by
earlier TLS-protected challenge response authentication mechanisms.
This document is a product of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Authentication
Working Group of the IETF.
EXPERIMENTAL: This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the
Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any
kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
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