Re: [Emu] EAP and authorization

2009-08-13 Thread Joseph Salowey (jsalowey)
There have been a lot of proposals about EAP and authorization in the past. At its very basis EAP performs authentication at the time of service access and the data resulting from the authentication can then be used for authorization and accounting purposes. Some of the proposals attempt to enhan

Re: [Emu] EAP and authorization

2009-08-13 Thread Joseph Salowey (jsalowey)
There have been a lot of proposals about EAP and authorization in the past. At its very basis EAP performs authentication at the time of service access and the data resulting from the authentication can then be used for authorization and accounting purposes. Some of the proposals attempt to enhan

Re: [Emu] #18 Internationalization

2009-08-13 Thread Joseph Salowey (jsalowey)
The core chartered requirements also include the use of the tunnel method for password authentication, so it is important to consider this case. In addition, there is a proposal for defining conventions for defining generic textual attributes within the tunnel. I think the main advantage of do

Re: [Emu] #18 Internationalization

2009-08-13 Thread Bernard Aboba
Within Tunnel methods, exchanges of user names and passwords are often accomplished either using TLS or existing EAP methods (e.g. Identity or inner authentication methods). There are some tunnel methods that have their own native authentication methods (e.g. EAP-TTLSv0), but even those typic

Re: [Emu] EAP and authorization

2009-08-13 Thread Alan DeKok
Joseph Salowey (jsalowey) wrote: > There are other ways in which EAP has proposed authorization > enhancements. Other proposals have dealt with requesting authorizations > for or providing authorization data to services other than the one that > is performing the authentication. In addition propo