On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 20:35:13 GMT, Sean Mullan <mul...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Michael McMahon has updated the pull request incrementally with two
>> additional commits since the last revision:
>>
>> - update
>> - update after first review round
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/sun/net/www/protocol/http/DigestAuthentication.java
> line 514:
>
>> 512: if (getAuthType() == AuthCacheValue.Type.Server &&
>> 513: getProtocolScheme().equals("https")) {
>> 514: // HTTPS server authentication can use any algorithm
>
> A more security conscious user may want to disable MD5 digest authentication,
> even when used over HTTPS, even though the risks are far less than when used
> over HTTP. Is there a way to do that?
There isn't a way to do that currently. I'd prefer not to further complicate
the configuration to allow it. It would probably be a lot simpler to just
disable MD5 across the board for proxy and server instead? We're including
SHA-1 in that list now as well by the way.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7688
