From f2839f65bac7f7e54fe2a8fa9f4f225af83d9110 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Fritsch Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 16:18:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Merge r1555555 from trunk: axe one more case of digest auth being described as secure git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x@1555559 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 362b089fab..2d0f8fc151 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