> > The same method works equally well for a SASL database of plaintext
> > passwords. i.e. you can encrypt the whole lot with a symmetric cipher. When
> > you need to authenticate someone, you decrypt the relevant password and run
> > in through the CRAM algorithm.
>
> Yes, but, wasn't the original complaint that "this isn't being done", not
> that "it cannot be done"?  I didn't offer kerberos as "the only solution",
> I offered it as a counter-example to the statement that the password has
> to be in the clear somewhere.

And, just to be clear, I'm also not offering kerberos as a "perfect
solution".  Just as a counter-example to the claim.




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