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RFC 8120: Mutual Authentication Protocol for HTTP

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This document specifies an authentication scheme for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that is referred to as either the Mutual authentication scheme or the Mutual authentication protocol. This scheme provides true mutual authentication between an HTTP client and an HTTP server using password-based authentication. Unlike the Basic and Digest authentication schemes, the Mutual authentication scheme specified in this document assures the user that the server truly knows the user's encrypted password.

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Document ID
RFC8120
Published
April 2017
Authors
Y. Oiwa; H. Watanabe; H. Takagi; K. Maeda; T. Hayashi; Y. Ioku
Status
EXPERIMENTAL
Stream
IETF
Area
sec
Pages
53
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