Master sites offering tiered access to syndicated content through geographically diverse third party owner affiliate feeder sites can implement partioned control and management of users by using the isapi authentication filter. This applies to entities such as research library networks, online entertainment networks and AVS networks ...

Passwords are never stored in their original clear text form, nor are they stored in a final usable form at any time.

Instead, the 128 bit cryptographic MD5 hash of term A1 described in the RFC is calculated and stored in the database when the user is first added to the database ...