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Re: [http-auth] I-D Action: draft-ietf-httpauth-scram-auth-09.txt

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Sat, 14 November 2015 12:15 UTC

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Hi Martin,

> On 14 Nov 2015, at 00:59, Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
> I think further wording improvement is needed.
> 
>> On 2015/11/14 03:24, Tony Hansen wrote:
>> 
>>          Note that version of SCRAM doesn't support HTTP channel
>>          bindings, so this header always starts with "n"; otherwise the
>>          message is invalid and authentication MUST fail.
> 
> The second word, "that", seems to do double duty, both in "Note that" and "that version of SCRAM". This doesn't parse.

Thank you for pointing this out.

> Possible solutions:
> 
>          Note that this version of SCRAM doesn't support HTTP channel
>          bindings, so this header always starts with "n"; otherwise the
>          message is invalid and authentication MUST fail.

As per Tony's response, I will go with the above version.

> or
> 
>          Note that SCRAM-SHA-256 doesn't support HTTP channel
>          bindings, so this header always starts with "n"; otherwise the
>          message is invalid and authentication MUST fail.
> 
> Regards,   Martin.

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