Feature request SCRAM-SHA-256

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 16 December 2018 at 10:27 Tributh via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> is that here the right place to make feature requests?
> 
> dovecot supports as authentication mechanism
> SCRAM-SHA-1 from RFC 5802
> which was updated to
> SCRAM-SHA-256 in RFC 7677
> 
> Can SCRAM-SHA-256 be added to the authentication mechanisms?
> 
> I would not like to request, that SCRAM-SHA-1 will be exchanged by
> SCRAM-SHA-256, since several applications only support SCRAM-SHA-1
> 
> Regards
> 
> Torsten

Hi!

Adding this is possible, it can even be done as a separate plugin. But I have to ask, why? Do you actually have clients that support this?

Aki