ietf-nntp AUTHINFO SASL protocol choices

[Lawrence Greenfield]

   From: "Jeffrey M. Vinocur" <jeff at litech.org>
   Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:52:10 -0500 (EST)

   On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Lawrence Greenfield wrote:

   > On the contrary, since the SASL exchange will require a line length of
   > greater than 85000 characters, it makes perfect sense to special case
   > the authentication command to do dynamic memory allocation up to 85k
   > but not allow other commands to create such memory demands.

   Whoa.

   What SASL method requires that much space?

None right now.  The SASL revisions draft will contain 64K as the must
support length because we have to say something for interoperability,
and GSS mechanisms (which can be used as SASL mechanisms) also have a
requirement of 64K.

Larry