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Title : A Password-based Authentication Protocol
Author(s) : S. Josefsson
Filename : draft-josefsson-password-auth-00.txt
Pages : 16
Date : 2007-3-28
There is a lack of a simple, standardized, secure and modern
password-based mechanism for user authentication in application
protocols. This document specify a challenge/response protocol that
provide password-based authentication services. We describe how the
protocol may be used as a GSS-API mechanism and, using the GS2
framework, how it may be used as a SASL mechanism. The protocol
supports HMAC-SHA-256 as the mandatory to implement algorithm, and it
supports channel bindings. The intended use is by application
protocol that today use CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 via SASL, or by GSS-
API applications that needs a password based method. The protocol is
applicable to other environments, such as EAP, should the need arise.
See <http://josefsson.org/password/> for more information.
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