Can someone point me to how to encode the passwords using the helper?
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Henrik Nordstrom
<henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On fre, 2008-05-30 at 09:50 -0400, Chris Riggins wrote:
>> No, it is possible to use digest authentication to avoid
>> cleartext passwords. The squid wiki link Henrik sent out is a good
>> start, but it leaves out one critical piece: how to encode the
>> passwords! In either LDAP or a flat-file, I found only one site
>> online with instructions, and they were 100% wrong.
>
> Plain-text or H(A1) from RFC2617, depending on how you use the helper..
>
> H(A1) is MD5("user:realm:password"), printed in normal HEX encoding.
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> Regards
> Henrik
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