Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-newman-sasl-plaintrans-04.txt (fwd)

From: Chris Newman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:18:52 -0800 (PST)

I'm planning to ask that this become an Informational RFC.

It defines the "PLAIN" SASL mechanism for plaintext login.

Please review this if you get a chance.

		Thanks,
		- Chris

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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:57:14 -0500
From: [email-masked]
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Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-newman-sasl-plaintrans-04.txt

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.

	Title		: Plaintext Password SASL Mechanism for Transitioning
	Author(s)	: C. Newman
	Filename	: draft-newman-sasl-plaintrans-04.txt
	Pages		: 9
	Date		: 13-Nov-97
	
     Unencrypted plaintext passwords are the biggest single risk to
     Internet application protocol security.  Unfortunately, they are
     widely deployed, often tightly integrated into operating system
     services and very difficult to replace in an interoperable fashion.
 
     This specification discusses some methods which can be used to
     eliminate unencrypted plaintext passwords.  It also defines a SASL
     mechanism [SASL] which may be used by newer protocols such as ACAP
     [ACAP] to transition away from a legacy authentication database.

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