RFC 6331

"Moving DIGEST-MD5 to Historic", July 2011

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6331.txt
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Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Obsoletes:

RFC 2831

Author:

A. Melnikov

Stream:

IETF

Source:

kitten (sec)

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Abstract

This memo describes problems with the DIGEST-MD5 Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) mechanism as specified in RFC 2831. It marks DIGEST-MD5 as OBSOLETE in the IANA Registry of SASL mechanisms and moves RFC 2831 to Historic status. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.