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Abstract:
This document specifies a mutual authentication method for the Hyper-
text Transport Protocol (HTTP). This method provides a true mutual
authentication between an HTTP client and an HTTP server using
password-based authentication. Unlike the Basic and Digest
authentication methods, the Mutual authentication method specified in
this document assures the user that the server truly knows the user's
encrypted password. This prevents common phishing attacks: a
phishing attacker controlling a fake website cannot convince a user
that he authenticated to the genuine website. Furthermore, even when
a user authenticates to an illegitimate server, the server cannot
gain any information about the user's password. The Mutual
authentication method is designed as an extension to the HTTP
protocol, and is intended to replace the existing authentication
methods used in HTTP (the Basic method, Digest method, and
authentication using HTML forms).
Authors:
Yutaka Oiwa <mutual-auth-contact-ml@aist.go.jp>
Hajime Watanabe
Hiromitsu Takagi
Boku Kihara
Tatsuya Hayashi
Yuichi Ioku
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