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Re: [radext] [Emu] EAP Erratum 6154 on RFC 3579:

Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> Tue, 05 April 2022 13:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [radext] [Emu] EAP Erratum 6154 on RFC 3579:
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> On Apr 4, 2022, at 4:05 AM, Oleg Pekar <oleg.pekar.2017@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I submitted errata on this https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid6915

  I think that looks good.

  (Removing EMU and adding RADEXT)

> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 5:21 PM Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> wrote:
> On Mar 31, 2022, at 10:05 AM, Oleg Pekar <oleg.pekar.2017@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > It looks like RADIUS RFC 2865, Section "5. Attributes" is ambiguous when it talks about the attribute value size:
> > 
> > First it says: "The Value field is zero or more octets", then it provides 5 possible value data types none of which allows a zero length value. 
> 
>   Yeah.  :(  It's horrible.
> 
> > Section "5.26. Vendor-Specific" also says about the value of a vendor-specific attribute "The String field is one or more octets".
> > 
> > Thus the RFC allows empty values for attributes in general but prohibits for any declared types of the attributes. 
> 
>   Yes.
> 
>   RADIUS is weird and terrible.
> 
>   Alan DeKok.
>

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