[jdev] SASL question on RFC 3920

Trejkaz Xaoza trejkaz at trypticon.org
Thu Jan 6 07:13:33 CST 2005


On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:07, Jens Mikkelsen wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 13:37, Christoph Schmidt wrote:
> > TLS is for encryption, SASL for authentication only.
>
> So there is no encryption at all with SASL? What is it then? It is a
> MUST.

If encryption is a must, then use TLS for the encryption.  Nothing stops you 
using both... in fact, the spec explicitly says you can.

TX

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