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Re: [xmpp] SCRAM as MTI?



2009/9/14 Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>:
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> The SASL SCRAM mechanism is currently in IETF Last Call:
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> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sasl-scram-07.txt
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> This mechanism is intended to replace DIGEST-MD5. Does it make sense for
> the XMPP WG to specify SCRAM as mandatory-to-implement?

Does SCRAM support a digest based auth like DIGEST-MD5 or, better,
does it allow secure authentication over an unsecure channel? In that
case definitively yes, since there many case in which I don't need
TLS, but at least i want to protect my credentials.

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