ietf-nntp AUTHINFO SASL protocol choices
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org
Thu Mar 28 10:52:10 PST 2002
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?
(Not that a single static 85 K buffer per client is actually a big deal,
in the end, but you have a point.)
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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org
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