eap Mailing List: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-arkko-eap-service-identity-auth-01.txt

[Jari Arkko (jari.arkko]

Internet-Drafts [at] ietf.org wrote:
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
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>     Title           : Authenticated Service Identities for the Extensible 
> Authentication Protocol (EAP)
>         Author(s)       : J. Arkko, P. Eronen
>         Filename        : draft-arkko-eap-service-identity-auth-01.txt
>         Pages           : 21
>         Date            : 2004-10-27
>         
>    EAP is usually used in an arrangement where the actual service (such
>    as a wireless LAN access point) is separated from the authentication
>    server.  However, EAP itself does not have a concept of a service
>    identity or its parameters, and thus the client usually does not
>    authenticate any information about the service itself, even when a
>    mutually authenticating EAP method is used.  This document specifies
>    a backward compatible extension to popular EAP methods for
>    authenticating service related information, such as the identity and
>    type of the offered service.  A common parameter name space is
>    created in order to ensure that the same kinds of identifiers can be
>    authenticated independent of the choice of the EAP authentication
>    method.
>
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-arkko-eap-service-identity-auth-01.txt