Hey Francisco et. al.,
  

  
Thank you for the additional context. I appreciate both suggested changes from 
my optional feedback and think they both make the document clearer for a wider 
audience. Best of luck with your other remaining publication steps.
  

  
I will update my ballot accordingly, though it of course will remain No 
Objection so you can proceed.   
  

  
Thanks,
  
Tommy
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
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> On May 27, 2026 at 19:44, FRANCISCO LOPEZ GOMEZ  <[email protected]>  
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>  Please find inline our responses to the comments raised.
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>  Thank you for your review and feedback.
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>   De:   Tommy Jensen via Datatracker  <[email protected]>
>   Enviado:   Miércoles, 29 de Abril de 2026 7:16
>   Para:   The IESG  <[email protected]>
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>   Asunto:   Tommy Jensen's No Objection on draft-ietf-emu-eap-edhoc-09: (with 
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> Tommy Jensen has entered the following ballot position for
>  draft-ietf-emu-eap-edhoc-09: No Objection
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>  I support this document as an efficient way to improve the 
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>  trade-off for low-resource devices.
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>  One point I think should be clarified is this bit from Section 3.1:
>   >      Resumption of EAP-EDHOC may be defined using the EDHOC-PSK
>   >      authentication method [I-D.ietf-lake-edhoc-psk].
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>  ...compared to Section 6.9:
>   >      The cross-protocol attack of [RFC9190] does not apply here, as no
>   >      resumption mechanism has been defined for EAP-EDHOC.
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>  I suggest 6.9 should be updated to more explicitly delegate responsibility to
>  documents that define resumption mechanisms rather than just say it isn't 
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>   [Authors] Thank you for this comment. Resumption is not defined in the 
> current document, as EDHOC-PSK is still under standardization in LAKE wg. 
> However, in the future, once EDHOC-PSK reaches a stable version, we would 
> like to add a resumption mechanism for EAP-EDHOC, addressing the 
> cross-protocol attack concern at that moment. We will update the text to 
> explicitly delegate responsibility on cross-protocol attacks to the future 
> document defining the resumption mechanism, as suggested.
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>  Regarding Section 6.5:
>   >      EAP-EDHOC relies on EDHOC, which is designed to encrypt and integrity
>   >      protect as much information as possible.    Any change in any message
>   >      is detected by means of the transcript hashes integrity verification.
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>  The statement that EDHOC is designed to "encrypt and integrity protect as 
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>  information as possible" (opportunistic) seems to be at odds with "any change
>  in any message" (deterministic). As far as I can tell, the latter claim is
>  true. Therefore, I would change how EDHOC is described here to match that. If
>  in fact there are some changes that can be made to a message that cannot be
>  detected, then the text needs corrected of course.   
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>  [Authors] Thank you for this suggestion. Since EDHOC uses transcript hashes 
> that include the plaintext messages for key derivation, any modification to a 
> message will result in a mismatch in the keys used to perform the protocol by 
> both parties. Therefore, an attacker cannot introduce unnoticed changes to a 
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>  However, the phrase “protect as much information as possible” is used 
> because not all fields and messages in EDHOC are encrypted. We acknowledge 
> the possible ambiguity in the text, so we will rephrase it as follows:
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>  “EAP-EDHOC relies on EDHOC, which is designed to maximize confidentiality by 
> encrypting handshake elements as early as the protocol state permits. In 
> addition, the protocol is cryptographically bound such that any modification 
> to any message—encrypted or unencrypted—results in a verification failure, as 
> transcript hashes computed over the plaintext messages are used to derive the 
> cryptographic material used by both endpoints.”   
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