The client side SCRAM mechanism sends a nonce to the server as a part of Client Step 1. The server takes this nonce, and appends its own random data, and returns this to the client in Server Step 1. The client should validate that its original nonce is a prefix to this nonce. Not doing so could cause an error message to be emitted in Server Step 2, rather than in Client Step 2 when the problem was first detectable. Fixing this will improve the usefulness of these messages.