Disagree with this--sure, it could be an option to hide it that much, but I'd want such entries to appear in my RSS marked as "password protected" (I'd also like some way of pinging RSS readers and aggregators that don't use auth=digest as well) as that's where a fair few readers come from.

There's no point, to me, in having an easier way to have non-site users get to an entry then make it impossible for them to find it. This would be especially true of some older family members who might just possibly remember to check a URL, etc.