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Protocol

SASLAuthenticationMechanism

The protocol to which all SASL mechanism implementations must conform. It is the responsibility of each individual implementation to provide an API for creating instances of itself which are able to retrieve information from the caller (such as usernames and passwords) by some mechanism.
protocol SASLAuthenticationMechanism

Topics

Instance Methods

  • step(message:)
    Single-step the mechanism. The message may be nil in particular when the local side of the negotiation is a client starting its initial authentication request.

Type Properties

  • name
    The IANA-registered SASL mechanism name. This may be a family prefix or a specific mechanism name. It is explicitly suitable for use in negotiation via whatever underlying application-specific protocol is in use for the purpose.

See Also

Deprecated APIs