On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Ronny Haryanto wrote:

> Is there any other alternative for secure auth? Any suggestions?

The only viable alternative is digest, but as you noted this places rather 
strict restrictions on your backend database.

digest does not really require plain text in the directory, but it 
requires that the Squid user has access to the digest equivalence of the 
plain text password (one-way hashed, not useable outside digest), or that 
your directory has a secure channel for Digest authentication (no 
standard exists for this, but I have seen signs that several commercial 
directory servers have such channels)

Regards
Henrik

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