ietf-nntp Re: WG Review: Simple Authentication and SecurityLayer (sasl)

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
> 
> > Just out of curiosity, how is this issue being resolved today?  With
> > AUTHINFO GENERIC?
> 
> With AUTHINFO USER / AUTHINFO PASS most likely.  Almost no one uses either
> AUTHINFO GENERIC or AUTHINFO SIMPLE.

OK, so then SASL doesn't make the situation of chained authentication
any worse than it currently is.  Obviously implementaing SASL and/or
STARTTLS has the potential to make the situation better.

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