RE: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-16 Thread Bernard Aboba
I agree with Lakshminath on this. From: Lakshminath Dondeti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 4/11/2007 11:03 PM To: Sam Hartman Cc: ietf@ietf.org; Bernard Aboba; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-16 Thread Nicolas Williams
Below are diffs to draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt including: - Alexey Melnikov's IANA text - Fixes to Eric Gray's nits - New text about EAP channel binding - A clarification requested by Sam: this doc describes a generic notion of channel binding, not [just] the GSS-API's Please

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-16 Thread Charles Clancy
On Mon, April 9, 2007 6:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles == Charles Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Sam Hartman wrote: Charles == Charles Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles I don't think I'm convinced that EAP channel bindings are Charles doing this

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-16 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:10:32AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: - New text about EAP channel binding Actually, some of that text is incorrect -- I misunderstood the lying NAS issue: it's not about MITM attacks but about making sure that the client knows the correct name for the NAS so that it

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-15 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 07:52:17PM -0400, Charles Clancy wrote: Sam Hartman wrote: The more I read what you, Bernard and Charles say, the more I'm convinced that I agree with your description of EAP and that my text is correct. The more I talk, the more you're convinced that my text is

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-13 Thread Sam Hartman
Lakshminath == Lakshminath Dondeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that having a single abstraction that can describe what went by multiple names in different areas can be very useful because it facilitates cross-area communication. And missing an opportunity to point out

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-13 Thread Charles Clancy
Sam Hartman wrote: The more I read what you, Bernard and Charles say, the more I'm convinced that I agree with your description of EAP and that my text is correct. The more I talk, the more you're convinced that my text is wrong. We're talking past each other somehow. I think your text was

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-12 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
Hi Sam, Here is my take on this topic: After having reviewed draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01, I feel that putting EAP in scope of that document would require a rather involved revision of the document. As Charles noted it might require further abstraction of the concept of channel

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-12 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:03:29PM -0700, Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: After having reviewed draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01, I feel that putting EAP in scope of that document would require a rather involved revision of the document. As Charles noted it might require further abstraction

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-12 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
Hi Nico, Please see inline: Nicolas Williams wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:03:29PM -0700, Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: After having reviewed draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01, I feel that putting EAP in scope of that document would require a rather involved revision of the document. As

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-10 Thread Dan Harkins
On Mon, April 9, 2007 3:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I'd define the EAP channel binding problem as follows. There are two sets of identities that the peer and authenticator use: one at the EAP layer and one at a lower layer. There is an additional identity that the authenticator

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-09 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:44:54PM -0400, Charles Clancy wrote: This is one of the fundamental issues with EAP channel bindings. The NAS ID is bound to the AAA security association between the authenticator and the EAP server. The MAC address is visible to the client. Thus the peer and

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-09 Thread Charles Clancy
to be an L2 identity. It can be any identity that's meaningful to the parties involved, and can serve as the basis for making authorization decisions. As long as it's cryptographically bound to the L2 channel and that channel provides suitable protection for the EAP method doing the EAP

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-09 Thread Charles Clancy
Sam Hartman wrote: Charles == Charles Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles I don't think I'm convinced that EAP channel bindings are Charles doing this binding to the L2 channel. The identity used Charles in an EAP channel binding must be bound to the AAA Charles security

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-09 Thread Charles Clancy
Sam, In skimming through Nico's draft, it looks like EAP's crypto bindings look something like GSS channel bindings. EAP's channel bindings, on the other hand, don't really look like GSS channel bindings. In order for EAP's channel binding to look like GSS channel binding, EAP channel binding

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-09 Thread hartmans-ietf
Charles == Charles Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Sam Hartman wrote: Charles == Charles Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles I don't think I'm convinced that EAP channel bindings are Charles doing this binding to the L2 channel. The identity used Charles

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-06 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:41:09PM -0400, Charles Clancy wrote: Sam, In skimming through Nico's draft, it looks like EAP's crypto bindings look something like GSS channel bindings. Note: my I-D does not describe GSS channel binding -- it describes channel binding. The reference to GSS

Re: [Emu] Last call comments: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-01.txt: EAP channel bindings

2007-04-06 Thread Sam Hartman
Charles == Charles Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: to be an L2 identity. It can be any identity that's meaningful to the parties involved, and can serve as the basis for making authorization decisions. As long as it's cryptographically bound to the L2 channel and that