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Status:

EXPERIMENTAL

Author:

A. Melnikov

Stream:

IETF

Source:

httpauth (sec)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7804

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Abstract

This specification describes a family of HTTP authentication mechanisms called the Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM), which provides a more robust authentication mechanism than a plaintext password protected by Transport Layer Security (TLS) and avoids the deployment obstacles presented by earlier TLS-protected challenge response authentication mechanisms.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.