RFC 2831: Using Digest Authentication as a SASL Mechanism

This specification defines how HTTP Digest Authentication can be used as a SASL mechanism for any protocol that has a SASL (Simple Authentication and Security…

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Outgoing relationships (7 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Informative reference — RFC 2104: HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Informative reference — RFC 2047: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
Informative reference — RFC 2617: HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 2222: Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)
Informative reference — RFC 2052: A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)

Incoming relationships (8 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 6331: Moving DIGEST-MD5 to Historic
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4744: Using the NETCONF Protocol over the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4643: Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Extension for Authentication
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5178: Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) Internationalization and Domain-Based Service Names and Name Type
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6120: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7617: The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5092: IMAP URL Scheme
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5804: A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts