Digest access authentication on Arduino

[PCGayan priyanatha]

Hi,

Did any one tried implementing Digest access authentication on Arduino ? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication)

This is more advance security than Base access authentication.

Please Post if you guys have tried anything related to this, I am planning to try it out.

Thanks.

[Ben Combee]

This requires running the MD5 algorithm on the 8-bit microcontroller.  According to http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,37905.0.html, it's doable and can run about 350 hashes a second.  However, MD5 isn't very secure, and if you're really concerned about that, I'd suggest running some sort of access firewall between your Arduino and the rest of the network.