Developer's Guide to Oracle^® Solaris 11.3 Security

Writing Applications That Use SASL

SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) is a security framework. SASL, pronounced "sassel", provides authentication services and optionally integrity and confidentiality services to connection-based protocols.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Introduction to Simple Authentication Security Layer (SASL)

• SASL Example

• SASL for Service Providers