Re: [Emu] Issue #7: Password Authentication

2009-12-01 Thread Alan DeKok
Dan Harkins wrote: > I guess it depends on what you mean by "expose". If it means a kind > of flashing-- here's the username and password!-- then no this is not > sufficient. Such an exposure is certainly a problem but popular ways to > get around this exposure are not satisfactory. What I'm sayi

Re: [Emu] Issue #7: Password Authentication

2009-12-01 Thread Dan Harkins
Hi Alan, On Tue, December 1, 2009 2:03 am, Alan DeKok wrote: > Dan Harkins wrote: >> I guess it depends on what you mean by "expose". If it means a kind >> of flashing-- here's the username and password!-- then no this is not >> sufficient. Such an exposure is certainly a problem but popular

Re: [Emu] Issue #7: Password Authentication

2009-12-01 Thread Alan DeKok
Dan Harkins wrote: > The text says the method > "MUST NOT expose" the username and password. The word "expose" is not > defined and is very vague and open to interpretations that would result > in an insecure protocol. I think there is a property in a properly modeled > protocol that could replace

Re: [Emu] Issue #7: Password Authentication

2009-12-01 Thread Dan Harkins
Alan, Yes, I can propose a specific modification. In fact, I did already. It just got truncated from the thread. What I suggest is that in section 3.1, in the middle of the first paragraph (the text that Joe was quoting originally), remove this: "The tunnel method MUST support transporti