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Re: userPassword question

Hi Chris,

>All clients and servers MUST implement a fast authentication mechanism
>which does not send the password in the clear and does not use encryption.

If clients should not send a clear-text password and should not use
encryption, how will they send the passwords?

Thanks
Suresh Krishnan

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@innosoft.com>
To: Mark Smith <mcs@netscape.com>
Cc: 'IETF LDAP Extensions WG' <ietf-ldapext@netscape.com>
Date: Thursday, July 30, 1998 5:47 AM
Subject: Re: userPassword question


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