GetChallenge

The GetChallenge method returns an authentication challenge for the specified user.

AuthChallenge GetChallenge(
    string loginName
    )

Parameters

loginName

User name of the user being authenticated.

Returns

AuthChallenge object containing the password salt and a random challenge necessary to complete the challenge-response authentication protocol.

Remarks

Each user gets a unique challenge which cannot be used to login other users. Applications should not store or cache challenges, they have a short expiration time.

See Also