Oh. I somehow read that Dan favored APOP. 

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> I guess we all agree then: no apop for ldap-based authentication.
> 
> Aaron Stone wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2005, Dan Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> 
>>>I'd suggest instead of APOP, use POP3 over SSL.  Storing passwords in 
>>>plaintext shouldn't be done in any context.  Seriously.
>> 
>> Doesn't work if we don't have control of the hashing type, as with LDAP.
>> Plus, APOP only handles the authentication, not the data flow. Plenty of
>> people would like to secure their entire session and not just the login
>> handshake.

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