eap Mailing List: Re: Proposed Resolution to Issue 357: Channel Binding Defintiion

[Yoshihiro Ohba (yohba]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 03:16:14PM -0700, Bernard Aboba wrote:
> Yoshi Ohba said:
> 
> How about:
> 
> "It is expected that the parameters are also agreed upon by the peer
> and authenticator via the lower layer if the authenticator is the
> valid entity that advertised the parameters."
> 
> Question:  What does "valid" mean here?   Do we mean "securely agreed upon"?
> 
> How about this:
> 
> "A secure mechanism for ensuring that a subset of the parameters transmitted 
> by the
> authenticator (such as authenticator identifiers and properties) are agreed 
> upon by
> the EAP peer and server.  It is expected that the parameters are also 
> securel agreed
> upon by the EAP peer and authenticator via the lower layer if the 
> authenticator
> advertised the parameters."

The text works for me.  (s/securel/securely/)

Thank you,
Yoshihiro Ohba

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