On Feb 5, 2021, at 2:53 PM, Alan DeKok <[email protected]> wrote:
>  The TLS layer generally *will* produce TLS alerts.  The application has the 
> choice whether or not to send them.  i.e. it should just discard the TLS 
> alerts, and instead send EAP-Failure.

  Typo, sorry.  It "could" discard the TLS alert and send EAP-Failure.

  I would suggest instead that it MUST send the TLS alert before any 
EAP-Failure.

  One reason is that currently, the EAP layer has no reliable indication that 
the TLS layer failed.  It *could* just get an EAP-Failure at any point.  Which 
makes implementations fragile and awkward.

  If instead EAP-TLS 1.3 mandates sending a TLS alert *before* EAP-Failure, 
then this meets the "altReject" criteria of RFC 4137.  And implementations know 
exactly what to expect, and when.

  Alan DeKok/

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