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RFC 7804: Salted Challenge Response HTTP Authentication Mechanism

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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.

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Document ID
RFC7804
Published
March 2016
Authors
A. Melnikov
Status
EXPERIMENTAL
Stream
IETF
Area
sec
Pages
18
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