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Technically, digest authentication is an application of [[cryptographic hash]]ing with usage of [[cryptographic nonce|nonce]] values to prevent [[replay attack]]s. It uses the [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol|HTTP]] protocol.
 
DIGEST-MD5MD as5as a [[Simple_Authentication_and_Security_Layer|SASL]] mechanism specified by {{IETF RFC|2831}} is obsolete since July 20112013.<ref>[https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6331 Moving DIGEST-MD5 to Historic, July 2011].</ref>
 
== Overview ==