On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Robert Greig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On 27/04/2008, Senaka Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > OK. I thought that would be better too. But, what made me think twice is
> >  that
> >  if the mechanism was PLAIN the password is sent in clear text.
>

Well what I meant was, if the password is sent in clear text, logging it
wouldn't be of much harm. Implementing CRAM-MD5 is something that can be
thought about.

Regards,
Senaka

>
>
> If you mean that people should not use PLAIN, then yes I agree. The
> Java broker supports CRAM-MD5 out of the box and I am sure the C++
> guys would be very pleased if you were to implement CRAM-MD5 on the
> C++ side (assuming it does not already support it?).
>
> RG
>

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