[Emu] EAP and UTF-8

2008-09-11 Thread Stefan Winter
Hello, I'm currently trying to figure out what would happen if a AAA roaming consortium (802.1X based, using EAP and RADIUS) were to use IDNs in its NAIs, i.e. a user name like [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was kindof expecting to see UTF-8 encoded User-Name attributes showing up at the RADIUS server, s

Re: [Emu] EAP and UTF-8

2008-09-11 Thread Stefan Winter
Hi, > RFC 3748 Section 5.1 allows additional data to be transmitted after > the NUL in an Identity Request. This could perhaps be leveraged to send > a string such as "UTF-8", which could indicate to the supplicant that > the server is requesting UTF-8 encoding. Hmm... In 802.1X, the EAP-Reque

Re: [Emu] EAP and UTF-8

2008-09-11 Thread Alan DeKok
Stefan Winter wrote: > I'm currently trying to figure out what would happen if a AAA roaming > consortium (802.1X based, using EAP and RADIUS) were to use IDNs in its > NAIs, i.e. a user name like [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a related note, there was discussion in Dublin about updating RFC 4282 for i

Re: [Emu] EAP and UTF-8

2008-09-11 Thread Alan DeKok
Stefan Winter wrote: > Hmm... In 802.1X, the EAP-Request/Identity is sent by the authenticator, > which, in a scenario with multiple home authentication servers and > realms, does not necessarily know which home server expects which > encoding. A negotiation would be very nice, but I doubt it can w

Re: [Emu] EAP and UTF-8

2008-09-11 Thread Stefan Winter
Hi, > The alternative is for supplicants to simply start using UTF-8. It's > likely a good idea, in any case. > Yes, I'd be very happy if supplicants did that. Obviously some refrained from doing it so far, and I don't think there is a lot of incentive to make them change their code if we