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Re: [xmpp] SCRAM as MTI?



On Tuesday 15 September 2009 13:33:08 Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> On 9/15/09 6:20 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > To use SCRAM (or CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5) you need a secure channel.  If
> > you used DIGEST-MD5 with security layers you will need SCRAM+TLS
> > instead.  SCRAM does not provide any SASL security layers.  I hope you
> > weren't using DIGEST-MD5 security layers, because they weren't that
> > good...
>
> As mentioned, I don't think that anyone was using DIGEST-MD5 security
> layers in XMPP. If I'm wrong about that I'd love to be corrected.

Psi supports this feature but nobody knows it.  You have to pair the client 
with cyrus-sasl, which is not how we ship by default.

I'm not aware of anyone using DIGEST-MD5 security layers in practice.  That's 
a shame, because I do think it's a useful feature.  Even if the security 
isn't that good, it's certainly better than unchecked TLS (something people 
still do today).

-Justin

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