← Back to release summary

RFC 7616 Digest auth: Support SHA-256 and username hashing

Category

Miscellaneous

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 117)

Intent stage

Prepare to ship

Summary

This change adds SHA-256 and username hashing support to HTTP Digest authentication. It brings Chrome to parity with Firefox that already supports SHA-256.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7616
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1160478

View on chromestatus.com