> 4) Re-construct those messages near the end of the exchange, storing
> only iyems such as nonces in the interim.

That's a pretty clever idea, but -- if you're talking about reconstructing the 
entire EAP exchange -- I don't think it would be very practical from an 
implementation standpoint, particularly when a AAA server is involved.

A simple option, if we keep this last-round-trip extension exchange, is to 
protect just that. It assumes that we'll never send an extension token in an 
earlier leg that requires integrity protection. (And, given we might want to do 
extension negotiation for something we haven't thought of yet, and avoid 
downgrade attacks, my gut feeling is that protecting the entire conversation is 
something we should bake into the protocol now if it's not too expensive.)

-- Luke
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