@misc{rfc8120, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 8120, howpublished = {RFC 8120}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC8120}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8120}, author = {Yutaka Oiwa and Hajime Watanabe and Hiromitsu Takagi and Kaoru Maeda and Tatsuya Hayashi and Yuichi Ioku}, title = {{Mutual Authentication Protocol for HTTP}}, pagetotal = 53, year = 2017, month = apr, abstract = {This document specifies an authentication scheme for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that is referred to as either the Mutual authentication scheme or the Mutual authentication protocol. This scheme provides true mutual authentication between an HTTP client and an HTTP server using password-based authentication. Unlike the Basic and Digest authentication schemes, the Mutual authentication scheme specified in this document assures the user that the server truly knows the user's encrypted password.}, }