IRCv3 SASL Mechanisms

IRC SASL authentication primarily uses the same mechanisms as SASL in other protocols. Most commonly:

Client Support

Desktop Clients

Feature AdiIRC BitchX ChatZilla Colloquy HexChat IceChat Irssi Konversation KVIrc
EXTERNAL Yes No No No Yes No Yes Yes No
PLAIN Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SCRAM-SHA-256 No No No No No No No No No
Feature LimeChat mIRC Mozilla Thunderbird Quassel Textual WeeChat Srain Swirc Glirc
EXTERNAL No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No
PLAIN Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SCRAM-SHA-256 No No No No No No No No No

Web Clients

Feature IRCCloud Kiwi IRC The Lounge Mibbit
EXTERNAL No No No No
PLAIN Yes Yes Yes Yes
SCRAM-SHA-256 Yes No No No

Mobile Clients

Feature IRC for Android
AndroIRC
Colloquy
Igloo
IRCCloud
LimeChat
Mutter
Palaver
YAAIC
EXTERNAL No No No No No No No No No
PLAIN No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SCRAM-SHA-256 No No No No Yes No No No No

Bouncers

Feature ZNC (as Server) ZNC (as Client)
EXTERNAL No Yes
PLAIN No Yes
SCRAM-SHA-256 No No

Bots

Feature Limnoria Sopel (ex Willie) Moon Moon PyLink (clientbot) BitBot
EXTERNAL Yes No No Yes Yes
PLAIN Yes Yes No Yes Yes
SCRAM-SHA-256 Yes No No No Yes

Libraries

Feature cinch Ruby Communi C++ girc Go irc-framework JS Kitteh IRC Client Library Java Net::Async::IRC Perl pydle Python Rust irc Rust Warren Kotlin
EXTERNAL No No Yes No Yes No No No No
PLAIN Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
SCRAM-SHA-256 No No No No No No No No No
Feature zIRC Python ChatSharp C#
EXTERNAL Yes No
PLAIN Yes No
SCRAM-SHA-256 No No

Services Support

Feature Anope Atheme (and forks)
ChatServices Xtheme
EXTERNAL Yes Yes
PLAIN Yes Yes
SCRAM-SHA-256 No No