File formats:

Status:

EXPERIMENTAL

Authors:

S. Farrell
P. Hoffman
M. Thomas

Stream:

IETF

Source:

httpauth (sec)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7486

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Abstract

HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication (HOBA) is a digital-signature-based design for an HTTP authentication method. The design can also be used in JavaScript-based authentication embedded in HTML. HOBA is an alternative to HTTP authentication schemes that require passwords and therefore avoids all problems related to passwords, such as leakage of server-side password databases.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.