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SASL is a generic mechanism for authentication used by several network
protocols. Authen::SASL provides an implementation framework that all
protocols should be able to share.
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The framework allows different implementations of the connection class
to be plugged in. At the time of writing there were two such plugins:
- Authen::SASL::Perl
This module implements several mechanisms and is implemented
entirely in Perl.
- Authen::SASL::XS
This module uses the Cyrus SASL C-library (both version 1 and 2 are
supported).
- Authen::SASL::Cyrus
This module is the predecessor to Authen::SASL::XS. Until version 2.16,
Authen::SASL::Cyrus was loaded as an alternative to Authen::SASL::XS.