ietf-sasl

Welcome to the Web site for the ietf-sasl mailing list. This mailing list is the vehicle for the work being done on the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL).

Mailing List

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There is a complete archive of the mailing list. You can also access the entire archive as a single text file.

Documents for the Mailing List

The main documents being discussed by this Mailing List are:

Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) (RFC 2222) -- being revised by draft-ietf-sasl-rfc2222bis
SMTP Service Extension for Authentication (RFC 2554) -- being revised by draft-siemborski-rfc2554bis
Using Digest Authentication as a SASL Mechanism (RFC 2831) -- being revised by draft-ietf-sasl-rfc2831bis
ISO/IEC 9798-3 Authentication SASL Mechanism (RFC 3163)
POP3 AUTHentication command (RFC 1734) -- being revised by draft-siemborski-rfc1734bis
Plain SASL Mechanism (draft-ietf-sasl-plain)
Anonymous SASL Mechanism (draft-ietf-sasl-anon)
SASLprep: Stringprep profile for user names and passwords (draft-ietf-sasl-saslprep)
CRAM-MD5 SASL Mechanism> (draft-ietf-sasl-crammd5)

There is a good SASL web site maintained by Alexey Melnikov that lists SASL clients and servers.

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