Re: Optional domain/realm for SCRAM? (Re: Crypto agility in SCRAM + draft-josefsson-password-auth?)

[Simon Josefsson <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Simon Josefsson writes:
>> I'm not strongly opposed to realms, but if it leads to complexity in the
>> protocol, I think we should motivate it carefully.
>
> As far as I can tell, a realm is nothing but a salt common for all
> users on the server.  SCRAM supports a salt.

That's what I tried to describe in many more words in my message to
Jeff.

> Am I missing something?

I'm with you, I think SCRAM already supports this model.

/Simon