eap Mailing List: Re: Issue 267: PRF Negotiation

[Bernard Aboba (aboba]

I agree that this is needed.  The issue of PRF negotiation has come up
recently with respect to the NIST analysis of 802.11i.

Can you suggest some text?

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Bernard Aboba wrote:

> Issue 267: PRF Negotiation
> Submitter name: Florent Bersani
> Submitter email address: florent.bersani [at] rd.francetelecom.fr
> Date first submitted: 10/2/2004
> Reference:
> Document: Keying-03
> Comment type: T
> Priority: S
> Section: Appendix F
> Rationale/Explanation of issue
> Appendix F.1
>
> IIRC we had a discussion whether the prf used to derive AMSK should be
> mandated or could be negotiated
> (http://mail.frascone.com/pipermail/eap/2004-March/002384.html). There
> is a trade off between the two options (simplicity & interoperability
> are in favor of mandating one but not putting a mandatory requirement on
> peers and servers favors allowing negotiation). This is not reflected in
> the current appendix. I'd like some more discussion on the matter....
>
>