does Profanity have SCRAM-SHA-1 support?

[que...@gmail.com]

hi, I love this client! It lacks a lot of features but the interface/management makes it my favorite xmpp client, so my thanks to the devs.

I was wondering if Profanity supports client-side SCRAM authentication?

[pasis]

Hi,
profanity uses xmpp library libstrophe that doesn't support SCRAM-SHA-1 at the moment. The only supported are

• PLAIN
• DIGEST-MD5
• ANONYMOUS

But it can be implemented.

[Boothj5]

Yep, as Dmitry says, we are currently dependent on libstrophe which doesn't support SCRAM-SHA-1.  However, we may move to his fork called libcouplet as he is actively maintaining it and we could implement it there.

Glad you like the general interface and approach, there are a lot of features going into the next release 0.1.10 including:

* Subscription management

* Chat states

* Multi-user chat

Which should hopefully be out in a few weeks.

[pasis]

Hi there,
I've wrote implementation of SCRAM-SHA-1 for libcouplet. I will commit the code after some refactoring. Also I will try to find some free time to backport this implementation to libstrophe.

[pasis]

I've pushed implementation to master branch and will prepare patches for libstrophe in several days

[Boothj5]

Good work, I think it will be well received in the libstrophe community too.

[pasis]

Patch for libstrophe is in attach. Full sources you can fetch from libstrophe-scram-sha1 branch at https://github.com/pasis/libcouplet/tree/libstrophe-scram-sha1. With this patch SCRAM-SHA-1 is used by default if it's supported.

[Boothj5]

We have finally merged this pull request, so profanity now supports SCRAM-SHA-1 authentication when built against the latest version of libstrophe.

Thanks Dmitry.