Is basic auth with SSL secure enough?

api, basic-authentication, http-authentication, security, ssl

Solution

Yes. Basic Auth over SSL is actually stronger than Digest without SSL.

However, the overhead of SSL is much higher compared to computing hashes so there is no performance gain there.

Problem

I am developing an application which need to handle a massive amount of REST requests. Using basic auth will save a lot of computing resources since I don't have to compute the signatures. Also, the documentation will be a lot simpler. What are your thoughts?

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