Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Tue Sep 11 11:55:35 2007, Jonathan Chayce Dickinson wrote:
>> Interesting because most clients used Digest-MD5, so what do we use now?
>> Cram-MD5? Or is there some other newfangled method out there?
>>
>>
> DIGEST-MD5 is still more secure than CRAM-MD5, and this won't change
> because of that draft. :-)

Back in August I emailed about this issue [1] with the IETF area
directors for applications and security, relevant WG chairs, and
interested others. The conclusion was that in rfc3920bis we would make
the following changes to the mandatory-to-implement technologies:

1. Remove DIGEST-MD5

2. Add TLS + SASL PLAIN

/psa

[1] http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2007-August/016262.html

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