[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Nov 5 17:42:14 PST 2004


Mark Crispin <MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Privacy layers negotiated by AUTHINFO SASL.  You're right that if it's
>> just an AUTHINFO USER case, it's solvable, but it doesn't work with the
>> more general case going forward.

> Are SASL privacy layers actually implemented in inn yet?  If so, which
> SASL methods?

Yes, privacy layers are implemented for every SASL method that has them
and is supported by the Cyrus SASL library (which is at least GSSAPI I
know).  Regardless of implementation, though, the standard allows for them
and I don't really want to fiddle with SASL.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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