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Mozilla (stylized as moz://a) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. Challenge-response protocols are one way to fight against replay attacks where an attacker listens to the previous messages and resends them at a later time to get the same credentials as the original message. The "Basic" protocol isn't using a real challenge (the realm is always the same).Learn more about challenge-response authentication on Wikipedia page: http://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/challenge-response-authentication.
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