12 Mar 2012 21:12
Security considerations text for draft-ietf-emu-chbind
Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf <at> mit.edu>
2012-03-12 20:12:49 GMT
2012-03-12 20:12:49 GMT
Hi. I'm posting a new version of the channel bindings draft in response to AD review comments. I've been requested to develop security considerations text in response to attacks I wrote about on the list. Here's the text I'm including in the new draft. Comments are welcome. I don't know if Sean will simply issue the IETF last call and allow us to comment on this text during the last call or if he'll seek comments on this text before the last call. Either way, you should send comments on this new security considerations text now if you have some. At the bottom of section 9.1 I've added: This trust model is a significant departure from the standard EAP model. In many EAP deployments today attacks where one NAS can impersonate another are out of scope. Channel bindings brings these attacks into scope; the system as a whole needs to be analyzed to evaluate cases where one NAS may impersonate another and to evaluate the impact of this impersonation. One attractive implementation strategy for channel binding is to add channel binding support to a tunnel method which can tunnel an inner EAP authentication. This way, channel binding can be achieved with any method that can act as an inner method even if that inner method does not have native channel binding support. The requirement for mutual authentication and key derivation is at the layer of EAP that actually performs the channel binding. Tunnel methods sometimes use(Continue reading)
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