IBMSASL Provider

The IBMSASL provider supports the following client and server mechanisms.

Client Mechanisms

PLAIN (RFC 2595). This mechanism supports cleartext username/password authentication.
CRAM-MD5 (RFC 2195). This mechanism supports a hashed username/password authentication scheme.
DIGEST-MD5 (RFC 2831). This mechanism defines how HTTP Digest Authentication can be used as a SASL mechanism.
NTLM. This mechanism supports Windows NTLM authentication, integrity and confidentiality.
GSSAPI (RFC 2222). This mechanism uses the GSSAPI for obtaining authentication information. It supports Kerberos v5 authentication.
EXTERNAL (RFC 2222). This mechanism obtains authentication information from an external channel (such as TLS or IPsec).

Server Mechanisms