Re: [core] [Ace] CoAP-EAP draft

Christian Amsüss <christian@amsuess.com> Mon, 11 October 2021 09:10 UTC

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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 11:10:35 +0200
From: Christian Amsüss <christian@amsuess.com>
To: Dan Garcia Carrillo <garciadan@uniovi.es>
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Subject: Re: [core] [Ace] CoAP-EAP draft
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Hello Dan & Rafa,

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 10:42:56AM +0200, Dan Garcia Carrillo wrote:
> > * OSCORE ID derivation:
> > 
> >    * Randomly assigned full-length ideas look like an odd choice.
> >      [...]
> > 
> >      Any chance something like that can still make it in?
>
> [Authors] Did not see that as random but parametrised according to the
> crypto suite. We will try to make this as straightforward as possible
> following your comments.

the construction we recently discussed (where both peers decide actively
on the OSCORE Recipient IDs (or client ID for DTLS) they'd later want to
use as inputs to EAP) would resolve this issue conveniently.

(See coming follow-up in "About securing last exchange CoAP-EAP"[1] on
how this makes things easier over there).

BR
c

[1]: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/emu/bnMFV4_1uTW7sSwVOp7WzVZZCAI/

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