authenticated bits=0

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Fri Sep 16 23:08:21 EDT 2005


Forrest Aldrich wrote:

> I'm using Sendmail-8.13.4, and recently enabled SMTP-AUTH.
> 
> What is "authenticated bits=0" referring to?   The "bits" field in TLS 
> refers to the keysize, I believe.

Its the SSF of the SASL mech used for authentication.  In the case of 
CRAM-MD5, it has no security layer, therefore SSF=0.

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