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[SCM] GNU gsasl branch, master, updated. gsasl-1-2-105-g577799d |
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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:23:32 +0000 |
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commit 577799d4584b5e9469d88eadbd69ecef9ee9cb6b
Author: Simon Josefsson <address@hidden>
Date: Thu Oct 8 16:21:28 2009 +0200
Fix.
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Summary of changes:
doc/gsasl.texi | 9 ++++-----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/gsasl.texi b/doc/gsasl.texi
index 020c598..608c96f 100644
--- a/doc/gsasl.texi
+++ b/doc/gsasl.texi
@@ -1704,13 +1704,12 @@ values offered by the server (which may be inspected
through the
@section The SCRAM-SHA-1 mechanism
@cindex SCRAM
-The SCRAM-SHA-1 mechanism is designed to provide most of the same
-features as CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 but use modern cryptographic
-algorithms such as HMAC-SHA-1 and PKCS#5 PBKDF2. It supports
+The SCRAM-SHA-1 mechanism is designed to provide (almost) the same
+capabilities as CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 but use modern cryptographic
+techniques such as HMAC-SHA-1 and PKCS#5 PBKDF2. SCRAM-SHA-1 supports
authorization identities. Like CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5, only a hashed
password is transferred. Consequently, SCRAM-SHA-1 needs access to
-the correct password (although it may be hashed) to verify the client
-response.
+the correct password to verify the client response.
In the client, this mechanism is always enabled, and it requires the
@code{GSASL_AUTHID} property, and either @code{GSASL_PASSWORD} or
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