
Zitat von
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/auth.html
Before you leap into using digest authentication instead of basic authentication, there are a few things that you should know about.
Most importantly, you need to know that, although digest authentication has this great advantage that you don't send your password across the network in the clear [...]
Next, with regard to security considerations, you should understand two things. Although your password is not passed in the clear, all of your data is, and so this is a rather small measure of security. And, although your password is not really sent at all, but a digest form of it, someone very familiar with the workings of HTTP could use that information - just your digested password - and use that to gain access to the content, since that digested password is really all the information required to access the web site.
The moral of this is that if you have content that really needs to be kept secure, use SSL.