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If you'd like to send us a quick blurb about your interest or SASL project, we'd be happy to list a pointer here.

• Cyrus SASL is being used by sendmail to support RFC 2554: SMTP Service Extension for Authentication. Sendmail will support SMTP AUTH (via SASL) starting in version 8.10.0.

• The Cyrus IMAP server uses the SASL library, as of version 1.6.0.

• OpenLDAP uses the SASL library, as of version 2.0.

• The Cyrus SASL Library is currently being used in the Cyrus ACAP Server.

• Apple is using SASL as the basis of it's Open Directory password authentication services (Password Server) within Mac OS X Server. More information on Open Directory and its use of SASL can be found here

• Here is a document describing the changes that would need to be made to CVS to get it to use a SASL based authentication scheme. At this time, Carnegie Mellon is not pursuing this project, and would be glad to see anybody work on it.

• Carnegie Mellon is evaluating the incorporation of SASL into LPRng. This could eventually replace all of the existing authentication code, allowing new authentication modules to be used without the need to modify LPRng.

  An overview of the changes to the LPR protocol required to enable SASL is here. If you have any questions or comments, please contact the document's author. Note: this is a work in progress, and is not finished.

• Another possible SASL project would be the incorporation of a SASL authentication infrastructure into SSH. This would remove the need for custom patches to allow alternate authentication mechanisms to work, such as the AFS/Kerberos patch..