RFC 3117:On the Design of Application Protocols
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... authentication. That is, they don't authenticate the identity of the peers on the connection or the authenticity of the messages being exchanged. Or, if authentication ...
... protocol exchanges to authenticate identity, it can also use implicit information provided from the layer below. For example, if the ...


... authenticate using a channel, then there is a single user identity for each peer on that session (i.e., authentication ...



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