On 16 August 2016 at 14:09, Kurt Zeilenga <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 16, 2016, at 5:41 AM, Guus der Kinderen <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Interoperability problems galore!
>
> Welcome to DIGEST-MD5!
>
> I recommend avoiding this mechanism.  Use SCRAM instead (preferably PLUS 
> channel bindings) instead.
>

Openfire does offer SCRAM, sans -PLUS due to the missing bits of the TLS API.

But not everything can use SCRAM, and since DIGEST was the MTI for
many years, there's a large deployed base we cannot easily wish away
(including anything-but-latest Spark, when it's not doing GSSAPI).

> -- Kurt
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