eap Mailing List: Re: Proposed Resolution to Issue 315: Ciphersuites and Key Lengths

[Jari Arkko (jari.arkko]

Ok.

Bernard Aboba wrote:

> The text of Issue 315 is available here:
> http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/EAP/eapissues3.html#Issue%20315
>
> The proposed resolution is as follows:
>
> Within Section 1.4.4 change:
>
> "  Ciphersuite Independence is a consequence of the principles of Mode
>   Independence and Media Independence."
>
> To:
>
> "Ciphersuite Independence is a requirement for Media Independence. 
> Since lower
> layer ciphersuites vary between media, media independence requires that
> EAP keying material needs to be large enough (with sufficient entropy) to
> handle any ciphersuite."
>
>
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