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Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-hollenbeck-rfc4930bis-02

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Wed, 15 July 2009 20:19 UTC

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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:08:07 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-hollenbeck-rfc4930bis-02
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 03:44:04PM -0400, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nicolas Williams [mailto:Nicolas.Williams@sun.com] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:35 PM
> > To: Hollenbeck, Scott
> > Cc: Sandy Murphy; catherine.meadows@nrl.navy.mil; 
> > iesg@ietf.org; secdir@ietf.org
> > Subject: Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-hollenbeck-rfc4930bis-02
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:08:32PM -0400, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> > > Doesn't TLS provide protections for this issue?
> > 
> > Provided you authenticate the server, yes.
> 
> Good, because server authentication is a requirement specified in
> section 9 of 4934bis.

And provided we're talking about a two-party, client-server type of
application.  Specifically, that the username and cleartext password are
not being sent to more than one party and never in cleartext.

Nico
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