eap Mailing List: Re: Channel binding approaches (Was: Re: [eap] Strawman -10)

[Yoshihiro Ohba (yohba]

I agree that there can be several alternatives within my channel
binding approach.

I'd be happy to discuss such alternatives in my draft.  Then the
question is in which WG can we discuss my draft if EAP WG is
closed?

Best regards,
Yoshihiro Ohba


On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 09:40:45PM +0200, Jari Arkko wrote:
> The channel binding discussion has been interesting. I can
> actually see a number of different alternatives even
> within Yoshihiro's method. For instance, L2 could negotiate
> the use of channel bindings and have AAA inform the server
> of the need to use MSK_cb instead of the regular MSK. Or
> EAP method could negotiate this. Or the use of channel
> bindings would be dictated by the used lower layer,
> 
> I'm not sure which approach is the best one; there
> are tradeoffs. Generally I like approaches where
> we don't need to change EAP methods but YMMV.
> 
> In any case, I'm happy with what the -10 says about
> channel bindings, and perhaps the results of this
> discussion can be incorporated to Yoshihiro's draft.
> 
> --Jari
> 
>