# ``twisted`.`cred`.`credentials``

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This module defines `ICredentials`, an interface for objects that represent authentication credentials to provide, and also includes a number of useful implementations of that interface.

Interface | `IAnonymous` | I am an explicitly anonymous request for access.
Interface | `ICredentials` | I check credentials.
Interface | `ISSHPrivateKey` | `ISSHPrivateKey` credentials encapsulate an SSH public key to be checked against a user's private key.
Interface | `IUsernameHashedPassword` | I encapsulate a username and a hashed password.
Interface | `IUsernamePassword` | I encapsulate a username and a plaintext password.
Class | `Anonymous` | Undocumented
Class | `CramMD5Credentials` | An encapsulation of some CramMD5 hashed credentials.
Class | `DigestCredentialFactory` | Support for RFC2617 HTTP Digest Authentication
Class | `DigestedCredentials` | Yet Another Simple HTTP Digest authentication scheme.
Class | `SSHPrivateKey` | Undocumented
Class | `UsernameHashedPassword` | Undocumented
Class | `UsernamePassword` | Undocumented