eap Mailing List: Re: Re: issue: lifetimes of keys internal to EAP methods

[Yoshihiro Ohba (yohba]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:47:05PM +0300, Jari Arkko wrote:
> Yoshihiro Ohba wrote:
> 
> >>(2) The text does not cater for changing TEKs during an
> >>EAP method run. I know its far-fetched given that EAP is
> >>not the world's best protocol transporting large quantities
> >>of information. But it shouldn't be disallowed either.
> > 
> > 
> > OK.  But where is "changing TEKs" mentioned in your proposed text?
> 
> It wasn't directly, but I added "typically" so we still leave
> some space for this to happen:
> 
>    "They typically remain valid only for the duration of
>    the EAP conversation, and are lost once the EAP conversation
>    completes."
> 
> Do you think it should be more explicit?

I see.  If there is a typical existing EAP method that does this
"typical" thing, I think the proposed text is ok.  But it there such a
typical EAP method?  (I may be wrong)

Yoshihiro Ohba


> 
> --Jari
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