A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Authentication Working Group of the IETF. Title : Salted Challenge Response (SCRAM) HTTP Authentication Mechanism Author(s) : Alexey Melnikov Filename : draft-ietf-httpauth-scram-auth-00.txt Pages : 18 Date : 2013-07-01 Abstract: The secure authentication mechanism most widely deployed and used by Internet application protocols is the transmission of clear-text passwords over a channel protected by Transport Layer Security (TLS). There are some significant security concerns with that mechanism, which could be addressed by the use of a challenge response authentication mechanism protected by TLS. Unfortunately, the HTTP Digest challenge response mechanism presently on the standards track failed widespread deployment, and have had success only in limited use. This specification describes a family of HTTP authentication mechanisms called the Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM), which addresses the security concerns and meets the deployability requirements. When used in combination with TLS or an equivalent security layer, a mechanism from this family could improve the status-quo for application protocol authentication. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpauth-scram-auth There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpauth-scram-auth-00 Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt
