Re: [Emu] new I-D on password-authenticated EAP method

2008-03-11 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
Let's assume for the moment that there are good deployment reasons why you want to use a password based authentication method without running it in combination with pk-based server side authentication then TLS-SRP dumped into EAP would be my choice. The reasons are: * already specified and analy

Re: [Emu] new I-D on password-authenticated EAP method

2008-03-11 Thread Dan Harkins
Hi Hannes, I'm sorry the draft does not meet your expectations with respect to usage as compared to other EAP methods. I actually didn't think such verbage was actually needed. A brief scan of a recent EAP method that was advanced as RFC5106 shows that it too lacks a description of its use wi

Re: [Emu] new I-D on password-authenticated EAP method

2008-03-11 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
To continue on the previous discussions about this subject (with a different subject): a) I believe the document does not do a good job in describing where you plan to use this method in comparison to the already ongoing work on tunneled mechanisms. To quote Bernard on a previous mailing list

[Emu] new I-D on password-authenticated EAP method

2008-02-08 Thread Dan Harkins
Hello, There's a new I-D in the Internet-Drafts database called draft-harkins-emu-eap-pwd-00.txt. It describes a new method for authentication using only a password. It provides resistance to active attack, passive attack, and dictionary attack. It also provides forward secrecy and an authent