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Re: draft-zorn-radius-pkmv1-05.txt

2009-08-26 21:50:10
Yes, the changes below look good to me.

Thanks,
Donald

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Glen Zorn<gwz(_at_)net-zen(_dot_)net> wrote:
Donald Eastlake [mailto:d3e3e3(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com] writes:

...

The wording in Sections 3.1 and 3.2 see to almost be designed to
allow
the possibility of the multiple *-Cert Attributes carrying a
certificate to appear in more than one Access-Request message. But I
would assume that's not meaningful and/or was not intended to allow
that.

There is no way to do such a thing in standard RADIUS.

That's what I thought and why I was puzzled as to why there was a more
complex wording that appears to permit this. I suppose it is just the
way the words struck me at the time I read them. But I would, instead
of

          If multiple PKM-SS-Cert
      Attributes are contained within an Access-Request packet, they
      MUST be in order and MUST be consecutive attributes in the
packet.

have said

      These multiple PKM-SS-Cert Attributes MUST appear consecutively
      and in order within an Access-Request packet.

and similarly for PKM-CA-Cert.

OK.

...

This whole table needs to be carefully checked, the
inconsistencies resolved, and it should be clear if literal binary
attributes or some sort of logical aggregate attributes (in the case
of the "Cert" attributes at least), is being counted.

I can add notes to the table regarding the "logical" vs. "physical"
nature
of the PKM-*-Cert Attributes, as well as a key to the meaning of
"0+", etc.
Is that OK?

Yes.

You were right, the entries for the PKM*Cert Attributes should have been 0+
instead of 0-1.  The Table of Attributes now looks like this:

  The following table provides a guide to which attributes may be found
  in which kinds of packets, and in what quantity.

    Request Accept Reject Challenge Acct-Req  #   Attribute
    0+      0      0      0         0        TBD1 PKM-SS-Cert [Note 1]
    0+      0      0      0         0        TBD2 PKM-CA-Cert [Note 2]
    0       0-1    0      0         0        TBD3 PKM-Config-Settings
    0-1     0      0      0         0        TBD4 PKM-Cryptosuite-List
    0-1     0      0      0         0        TBD5 PKM-SAID
    0       0+     0      0         0        TBD6 PKM-SA-Descriptor
    0       0-1    0      0         0        TBD7 PKM-Auth-Key

  [Note 1]
     No more than one Subscriber Station Certificate may be transferred
     in an Access-Request packet.

  [Note 1]
     No more than one CA Certificate may be transferred in an Access-
     Request packet.

  The following table defines the meaning of the above table entries.

  0   This attribute MUST NOT be present in packet
  0+  Zero or more instances of this attribute MAY be present in packet
  0-1 Zero or one instance of this attribute MAY be present in packet
  1   Exactly one instance of this attribute MUST be present in packet

Is that OK?

...



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