On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 10:08 PM Joseph Salowey <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 8:11 AM Oleg Pekar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> I still see unclearness in Section "2.2. Identity Verification", I'm
>> trying to look from the implementer's perspective.
>>
>> 1) "Since EAP-TLS deployments may use more than one EAP
>>    server, each with a different certificate, EAP peer implementations
>>    SHOULD allow for the configuration of a unique trusted root (CA
>>    certificate) to authenticate the server certificate and one or more
>>    server names to match against the SubjectAltName (SAN) extension in
>>    the server certificate.  To simplify name matching, an EAP-TLS
>>    deployment can assign a name to represent an authorized EAP server
>>    and EAP Server certificates can include this name in the list of SANs
>>    for each certificate that represents an EAP-TLS server."
>>
>> --- question: Should the server name match *any* of SAN extensions in the
>> server certificate? If so - then suggest to say this explicitly.
>>
>>
[Joe] DOes adding the following sentence help?

"If any of the configured names match any of the names in the SAN extension
then the name check passes."


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> [Joe] yes the behavior is to match any.
>
>
>> 2) "If server
>>    name matching is not used, then peers may end up trusting servers for
>>    EAP authentication that are not intended to be EAP servers for the
>>    network."
>>
>> --- question: It looks like a warning, right? Suggest to make it more
>> explicit. Something like "If server name matching is not used, then it
>> essentially decreases the level of security of peer's authentication since
>> the peer may end up trusting servers for EAP authentication that are not
>> intended to be EAP servers for the network."
>>
>>
> [Joe] Thanks, I think that is better wording.
>
>
>> Regards,
>> Oleg
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 2:26 AM Joseph Salowey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> This is the working group last-call (WGLC) for draft-ietf-emu-eap-tls13.
>>> Please review the draft, focus on the changes since the last WGLC and
>>> submit your comments to the list by July 8, 2021.
>>>
>>> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-emu-eap-tls13/
>>>
>>> There is also an htmlized version available at:
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-emu-eap-tls13-17
>>>
>>> A diff from the previous WGLC version (-15):
>>>
>>> https://www.ietf.org//rfcdiff?url1=draft-ietf-emu-eap-tls13-17&url2=draft-ietf-emu-eap-tls13-15
>>>
>>> A diff from the previous version is available at:
>>> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-emu-eap-tls13-17
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Joe
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