Popular IRC daemons (Charybdis, UnrealIRCd, Inspircd) now support SASL authentication with the IRC services (NickServ). This provides several advantages over server-password and the old "PRIVMSG NickServ :IDENTIFY" hack; in particular: * no race conditions (such as joining channels before identifying) * clear indication of successful or failed authentication. It would be nice to have this supported by Telepathy & Empathy, at least with the standard PLAIN and EXTERNAL algorithms. IRC capabilities extension ('CAP'): http://www.leeh.co.uk/draft-mitchell-irc-capabilities-02.html IRC SASL authentication ('sasl' capability): http://git.atheme.org/charybdis/tree/doc/sasl.txt
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