Hi.
While working on the Moonshot Implementation of EAP Channel Bindings,
Margaret Wasserman discovered some attacks. We've been working on
refining these attacks and put together a draft with our
analysis. Please see draft-hartman-emu-mutual-crypto-bind

This is not a protocol flaw in EAP Channel Bindings or the ABFAb core
specs.
However, it is a serious concern in adding EAP Channel Binding to
existing EAP methods.
so, it's something that we should cover in describing how EAP should be
used for application authentication.

This isn't a show stopper for Moonshot. The Moonshot Project can work
around this for its implementation. Similarly, I believe that enough
certificate validation will avoid this issue for people using ABFAB with
PLASMA.

However, this is a fairly serious issue for the EAP community as a
whole. It's very easy to deploy things in a manner where channel
bindings don't provide security.  We think the ABFAB community should
track this issue.  we'd ask that discussion take place on the
[email protected] list.

Thanks for your consideration,

--Sam
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