RE: [squid-users] Re: ntlm won't prompt

From: Robert Collins <robertc@dont-contact.us>
Date: 11 Jul 2003 13:06:15 +1000

On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 12:49, Adam Aube wrote:

> A good compromise would be for Mozilla to prompt for username, password,
> and domain, then use that info to do NTLM. Wouldn't have all the
> benefits of Windows NTLM, but would be more secure than basic and
> wouldn't require cleartext password storage like digest.

Digest, per se, doesn't require clear text password storage.

Squids supplied helper uses cleartext, but that is simply -a-
implementation. Squid itself never needs the cleartext password.

Rob

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