twisted.mail.pop3.APOPCredentials

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class APOPCredentials:

Credentials for use in APOP authentication.

Method	`__init__`	No summary
Method	`checkPassword`	Validate a plaintext password against the credentials.
Instance Variable	`digest`	See `__init__`
Instance Variable	`magic`	See `__init__`
Instance Variable	`username`	See `__init__`

def __init__(self, magic, username, digest): ¶

Parameters
magic:`bytes`	The challenge string used to encrypt the password.
username:`bytes`	The username associated with these credentials.
digest:`bytes`	An encrypted version of the user's password. Should be generated as an MD5 hash of the challenge string concatenated with the plaintext password.

def checkPassword(self, password): ¶

from twisted.cred.credentials.IUsernameHashedPassword

Validate a plaintext password against the credentials.

Parameters
password:`bytes`	A plaintext password.
Returns
`bool`	`True` if the credentials represented by this object match the given password, `False` if they do not.

from twisted.cred.credentials.IUsernameHashedPassword