Re: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-00.txt is in the I-D repository

Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu> Fri, 18 August 2006 14:23 UTC

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From: Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu>
To: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
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Subject: Re: draft-williams-on-channel-binding-00.txt is in the I-D repository
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>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

    Simon> Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> writes:

    >> Folks, the replacement for draft-ietf-nfsv4-channel-bindings,
    >> draft-williams-on-channel-binding-00.txt, is now in the I-D
    >> repository.
    >> 
    >> It has also been significantly expanded.  Please review.  I'd
    >> like to ask the security ADs for an IETF Last Call on this I-D
    >> soon.

    Simon> Looks good in general.  A general design question:

    Simon> What about SASL/GS2 over TLS over SSH over IPSEC?  What is
    Simon> the channel bindings for that, is it only the TLS binding?
    Simon> Consider if the application regards the TLS layer as weak
    Simon> (export ciphers) but the SSH layer as strong, would it be
    Simon> permitted to use the SSH channel binding?  This sounds to
    Simon> me like it may require negotiation in GS2.

That's the application's problem to decide.

I definitely do not think we want every mechanism that supports
binding to a channel to need negotiation for this.


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