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Re: which is our DIGEST-MD5 successor?



Simon Josefsson <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Thanks.  SCRAM is not a GSS-API mechanism as far as I can tell, so I
> believe we have different goals.  I guess it is up to the WG to decide
> whether to base the password mechanism on GSS-API or not.

We have consensus to attempt making the new password-based mechanism a
valid GS2 mechanism (and thus also a valid GSS-API mechanism), only
specifying it in a way allowing for implementation without reference
to the GSS-API specs.

---Tom