Digest Auth
In plain terms
An HTTP authentication method that hashes credentials.
Going deeper
Digest authentication sends a hashed form of credentials rather than plaintext, improving over Basic Auth without full encryption. It avoids sending raw passwords.
Under the hood
Uses nonces to resist replay; weaker than token-based auth over TLS and now uncommon.
Examples
Legacy HTTP auth, hashed credentials, nonce-based auth, older APIs.
Think of it like...
Like proving you know a password by giving a scrambled proof rather than the password itself.