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The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Moving DIGEST-MD5 to Historic'
(draft-ietf-kitten-digest-to-historic-04.txt) as an Informational RFC
This document is the product of the Common Authentication Technology Next
Generation Working Group.
The IESG contact persons are Stephen Farrell and Sean Turner.
A URL of this Internet Draft is:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-kitten-digest-to-historic/
Technical Summary
The DIGEST-MD5 Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)
mechanism has known security and interoperability problems. This
memo recommends that RFC 2831 be moved to Historic status, and that
the DIGEST-MD5 mechanism be marked as OBSOLETE in the IANA
Registry.
Working Group Summary
This document is a product of the SASL and KITTEN Working Groups
(which merged during the lifetime of the document).
Document Quality
This document passed a Working Group Last Call in the SASL and
KITTEN Working Groups with no major concerns.
Personnel
Tom Yu (tlyu@mit.edu) is the document shepherd
Stephen Farrell (stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie) is the responsible AD.
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