Re: [http-auth] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-03.txt

Peter Saint-Andre - &yet <peter@andyet.net> Fri, 05 December 2014 17:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-auth] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-03.txt
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On 12/5/14, 10:21 AM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2014, Yoav Nir wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Julian
>>
>> This begins a 2-week WGLC for this document.
>>
>> Please take the time to read through and post any comments to the list.
>
> My apologies if this has already been covered, but the abstract includes
> the phrase "obfuscated by the use of Base64 encoding" (the introduction
> includes similar content).  It looks like this was introduced in the -01,
> and the on-list discussion of the -00 didn't really talk about it -- there
> was a note from Bjoern that the abstract "could use another sentence
> stating what the `Basic` scheme is", but the word "obfuscate" did not
> appear.  As such, I thought I would mention it now -- it's not really
> clear that Base64 encoding counts as obfuscation in this context, where
> the HTTP headers make it very clear that the userid/password are being
> conveyed.

That struck me as odd, too. I'd suggest "encoded in Base 64" instead.

Peter