[NNTP] draft-ietf-nntpext-authinfo-04

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sep 29, 2004, at 3:19 PM, Ken Murchison wrote:

> I'll note that continuing to advertise AUTHINFO SASL: is only required 
> id a security layer is in place.  Any thoughts on whether we should 
> continue to advertise AUTHINFO USER in this case?  (For the record, I 
> don't see the point).

One quick question -- are there any standalone encryption-via-SASL 
utilities, along the lines of stunnel for TLS?

(If so, I can contrive a case where somebody might want to use AUTHINFO 
USER after a SASL security layer is established.  For practical 
purposes, I think we can probably ignore this case.)

-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org