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       RFC 3163

        Title:      ISO/IEC 9798-3 Authentication SASL Mechanism
        Author(s):  R. Zuccherato, M. Nystrom
        Status:     Experimental
        Date:       August 2001
        Mailbox:    robert.zuccherato@entrust.com,
                    magnus@rsasecurity.com
        Pages:      17
        Characters: 32498
        Obsoletes/Updates/SeeAlso:    None

        I-D Tag:    draft-zuccherato-9798-3-sasl-03.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3163.txt


This document defines a SASL (Simple Authentication and Security
Layer) authentication mechanism based on ISO/IEC 9798-3 and FIPS PUB
196 entity authentication.

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