[ietf-nntp] draft-ietf-nntpext-tls-nntp-01.txt

Charles Lindsey chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Wed Mar 10 04:12:59 PST 2004


In <404DFF0A.6080804 at oceana.com> Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

>I agree completely.  If I don't need all of my traffic encrypted, but 
>want secure authentication, I would choose CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5.  I 
>don't *believe* anyone is arguing this point.  The upcoming AUTHINFO 
>SASL draft will allow CRAM-MD5 and any other SASL mechanism to be used 
>by NNTP.  The Cyrus NNTP server already supports all mechanism provided 
>by the CMU SASL library.

OK, if there is a draft in progress, then I am happy. Just curious as to
why there is no sight of that activity on this list.

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