Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-yount-krb-cred-clear-text-01.txt

Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu> Thu, 18 August 2011 20:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-yount-krb-cred-clear-text-01.txt
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Hi.
I have one question about the. changes in the last rev.
Why exactly do we need end-to-end security?
Why would some protocol that provided sufficient hop-by-hop security,
for example an AAA transport with confidentiality and
draft-ietf-abfab-aaa-saml transporting a krb-cred message?