GNU SASL is an implementation of the Simple Authentication and Security Layer framework and a few common SASL mechanisms. SASL is used by network servers such as IMAP and SMTP to request authentication from clients, and in clients to authenticate against servers. The library includes support for the SASL framework (with authentication functions and application data privacy and integrity functions) and at least partial support for the CRAM-MD5, EXTERNAL, GSSAPI, ANONYMOUS, PLAIN, SECURID, DIGEST-MD5, LOGIN, NTLM, and KERBEROS_V5 mechanisms.
| Tags | Communications Internet Security Cryptography Software Development Libraries Networking Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL LGPL |
| Operating Systems | Mac OS X Windows Windows POSIX Unix |
| Implementation | C C++ |
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Changes: The shared library version was correctly incremented. If GSS-API and GS2 are disabled, linking to a GSS-API library is no longer performed.


Changes: A new gsasl_free API was added for releasing memory allocated by other functions. Command-line tools, examples, etc. are now licensed under the GPL version 3 (or later). Documentation was updated for the license change. gnulib files and the translations were updated.


Changes: Cross-compilation to uClinux was fixed.


Changes: Gnulib files were updated. Changes were made to accommodate the fact that Git is now used instead of CVS.