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Secure Login credential without using SSL


I am new in SSL, whatever i read and know that its paid digital certificate and after using SSL in website https:// the data transfer is secure at network layer.

In my application i don't have much security concern except loginname and password.

Is there any way to protect Loginname and password without using SSL https://


Solution

  • There are a number of authentication schemes which can work securely over plain HTTP. The most common of these is Digest, which is supported by all major web browsers and virtually every web programming framework.

    The down-side of using Digest for web sites is that:

    There are other schemes such as OAuth which also are safe over plain HTTP, but that is really more for APIs than web sites, so probably isn't what you want.