From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: SASL related files in gnus/
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:23:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bq9y9nl5.fsf@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1Iro2n-0000Nz-S0@fencepost.gnu.org
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:10:37 -0500, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> said:
> What is SASL? What does it do? What job do these files do? Is it a
> job specifically related to news or mail?
SASL stands for Simple Authentication and Security Layer. It s a
framework for authentication and data security in Internet
protocols. It decouples authentication mechanisms from application
protocols, in theory allowing any authentication mechanism supported by
SASL to be used in any application protocol that uses SASL.
The SASL specification is in RFC 4422 (which supercedes RFC
2222). SASL is an IETF Standard Track protocol, presently a Proposed
Standard.
GNU SASL is a free and portable SASL command line utility and
library, distributed under the GNU GPLv3 and LGPLv2.1, respectively.
http://josefsson.org/gsasl/
> Could this feature work with Rmail or Mail mode? Could these files
> work with Rmail mode or Mail mode?
I see no fundamental obstacles to use there either. SASL is used
to communicate to the SMTP and IMAP servers to authenticate the user,
so one should be able to graft it on to any news/mail user agent in
emacs.
manoj
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-13 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-01 3:47 SASL related files in gnus/ Daiki Ueno
2007-11-04 19:56 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-11 23:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-12 1:04 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-12 15:36 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-11-13 5:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-13 15:23 ` Manoj Srivastava [this message]
2007-11-14 2:48 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-14 4:27 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-15 3:08 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-02 21:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-02 21:53 ` Glenn Morris
2007-11-14 10:19 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-11-15 3:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-15 14:12 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-11-16 4:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-26 0:21 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-11-18 22:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-18 22:54 ` Russ Allbery
2007-11-19 19:02 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-28 8:11 ` Glenn Morris
2007-11-18 22:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-28 8:10 ` Glenn Morris
2007-11-18 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-28 8:10 ` Glenn Morris
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