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HTTP Unprompted Authentication
draft-schinazi-httpbis-transport-auth-08

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Authors David Schinazi , David Oliver , Jonathan Hoyland
Last updated 2022-10-13
Replaced by draft-schinazi-httpbis-unprompted-auth
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Abstract

Existing HTTP authentication mechanisms are probeable in the sense that it is possible for an unauthenticated client to probe whether an origin serves resources that require authentication. It is possible for an origin to hide the fact that it requires authentication by not generating Unauthorized status codes, however that only works with non-cryptographic authentication schemes: cryptographic schemes (such as signatures or message authentication codes) require a fresh nonce to be signed, and there is no existing way for the origin to share such a nonce without exposing the fact that it serves resources that require authentication. This document proposes a new non-probeable cryptographic authentication scheme.

Authors

David Schinazi
David Oliver
Jonathan Hoyland

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