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Is basic authentication over HTTPS safe?
Note: The HTTP basic authentication scheme can be considered secure only when the connection between the web client and the server is secure. If the connection is insecure, the scheme does not provide sufficient security to prevent unauthorized users from discovering the authentication information for a server.
Is it safe to send a password over HTTPS?
It is safe. That’s how the entire web works. All passwords in forms are always sent in plain text, so its up to HTTPS to secure it. You still need to make sure you send it via POST request, not GET.
Should password be hashed client side or server side?
But simply hashing the password on the client side is only just better than submitting it as plain text to the server. Someone, who can listen for your plain text passwords is certainly also able to listen for hashed passwords, and use these captured hashes him/herself to authenticate against your server.
Is it safe to do basic Auth over HTTPS?
Basic Auth over HTTPS is good, but it’s not completely safe. Similar to how Fiddler works for SSL debugging, a corporate HTTPS proxy is managing the connection between the web browser and the Proxy (whose IP address appears in your webserver logs). In that case the HTTPS password is decrypted, and later re-encrypted at the corporate proxy.
What’s the difference between HTTP Basic authentication and HTTPS?
Is this answer outdated? HTTP Basic Authentication and HTTPS both are different concepts. In HTTP Basic Authentication username and password are sent in clear text (In HTTP Digest Authorization password is sent in base64 encoded using MD5 algorithm)
Which is more secure SSL or plaintext Auth?
Using SSL on top of it does makes it bit more secure but there are better mechanisms. Basic Auth creds are “plaintext over SSL” just like sending your credit card number through HTTP POST is “plaintext over SSL”. So by doing it over SSL (TLS these days) makes it secure during transport.
Is it safe to use digest authentication over SSL?
Digest authentication is secure even over unencrypted connections and its just as easy to set up. Sure, basic authentication is ok when you are going over ssl, but why take the chance when you could just as easily use digest authentication?