About Understanding HTTP Digest Access Authentication

SSL is the most modern and secure method of sending user authentication data over the public Internet. But if SSL is not available, you should turn to HTTPs Digest Access Authentication over its Basic Authentication. Digest Access improves on Basic by sending password information as an MD5-hash so its harder to reverse engineer than the plain text/Base64 encoding. This article discussed Digest Access, including the security features that update the methods original RFC.