[jdev] SASL question on RFC 3920

[Justin Karneges]

On Thursday 06 January 2005 09:41 am, Jens Mikkelsen wrote:
> Great this was just what I was hoping to hear! I was confused by the
> title Security Layer. I thought there might be some sort of encryption
> layer that I wasn't aware of. Thanks

Whoa there.  SASL can encrypt!

  SA = Simple authentication
  SL = Security Layer (encryption)  <------------------

You don't need SSL/TLS to have an encrypted Jabber connection.

That said, a lot of Jabber developers skip over this feature.

-Justin