{"draft":"draft-ietf-sasl-plain-09","doc_id":"RFC4616","title":"The PLAIN Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Mechanism","authors":["K. Zeilenga, Ed."],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"11","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Simple Authentication and Security Layer","abstract":"This document defines a simple clear-text user\/password Simple\r\nAuthentication and Security Layer (SASL) mechanism called the PLAIN\r\nmechanism.  The PLAIN mechanism is intended to be used, in combination\r\nwith data confidentiality services provided by a lower layer, in\r\nprotocols that lack a simple password authentication command.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"August 2006","keywords":["[--------|p]","data confidentiality"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC2595"],"updated_by":["RFC8996"],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC4616","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc4616"}