Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-17
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Mon, 23 November 2009 21:46 UTC
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Subject: Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-17
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Nicolas Williams wrote: >On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:39:59PM -0500, Glen Zorn wrote: > > >>The first paragraph says: >> >> GS2 does not use any GSS-API per-message tokens. Therefore the >> setting of req_flags related to per-message tokens is irrelevant. >> >>OK, but what should the client and server behavior should be WRT the flags? >> >> >There's no actual behavior w.r.t. req_flags and ret_flags. The GSS-API >mechanism is free to enable per-msg token features not requested by the >caller, but they are truly irrelevant: the application won't be using >per-msg tokens. It may make things simpler if we explicitly require >that req_flags not be set: > > GS2 does not use any GSS-API per-message tokens. Therefore the > per-message token ret_flags from GSS_Init_sec_context() and > GSS_Accept_sec_context() are irrelevant; implementations SHOULD NOT > set the per-message req_flags. > I agree this would be an improvement. > > >
- [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-17 Glen Zorn
- Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2… Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2… Simon Josefsson
- Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2… Simon Josefsson