From a74d3bfc3ec6f0541635ed51d85c75d91ac2c8ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Fritsch Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 16:16:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] axe one more case of digest auth being described as secure git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1555555 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- docs/manual/howto/auth.xml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/manual/howto/auth.xml b/docs/manual/howto/auth.xml index 42e77b47fe..715c5b727a 100644 --- a/docs/manual/howto/auth.xml +++ b/docs/manual/howto/auth.xml @@ -218,8 +218,9 @@ Require user rbowen highly sensitive data, unless accompanied by mod_ssl. Apache supports one other authentication method: AuthType Digest. This method is implemented by mod_auth_digest and is much more secure. Most recent - browsers support Digest authentication.

+ >mod_auth_digest and was intended to be more secure. This is no + longer the case and the connection should be encrypted with mod_ssl instead.

The AuthName directive sets the Realm to be used in the authentication. The realm serves -- 2.50.1