In the trailer department we carry Jet Co, Haulass, and Dynaweld. We also have an assorted inventory of used cars, Ford, Chevy, Mercury, and GMC, Volkswagen, Honda, Dodge and Nissans, Trucks, Vans and SUVâs.
In short, please. :-). Authentication = login + password (who you are). Authorization = permissions (what you are allowed to do). Short auth is most likely to refer either to the first one or to both.
1 Answer 1. active oldest votes. up vote 67 down vote accepted. Digest Authentication communicates credentials in an encrypted form by applying a hash function to the the username, the password, a server supplied nonce value, the HTTP method, and the requested URI. Whereas Basic Authentication uses unencrypted base64 encoding.