{"draft":"draft-ietf-nntpext-authinfo-10","doc_id":"RFC4643","title":"Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Extension for Authentication","authors":["J. Vinocur","K. Murchison"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"24","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"NNTP Extensions","abstract":"This document defines an extension to the Network News Transfer\r\nProtocol (NNTP) that allows a client to indicate an authentication\r\nmechanism to the server, to perform an authentication protocol\r\nexchange, and optionally to negotiate a security layer for subsequent\r\nprotocol interactions during the remainder of an NNTP session.\r\n\r\nThis document updates and formalizes the AUTHINFO USER\/PASS\r\nauthentication method specified in RFC 2980 and deprecates the\r\nAUTHINFO SIMPLE and AUTHINFO GENERIC authentication methods.\r\nAdditionally, this document defines a profile of the Simple\r\nAuthentication and Security Layer (SASL) for NNTP.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"October 2006","keywords":["[--------|p]","authinfo user\/pass","authinfo simple","authinfo generic","sasl","simple authentication and security layer"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC2980"],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC4643","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc4643"}