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> From: Marc Blanchet <[email protected]>
> Date: May 14, 2010 2:13:25 PM PDT
> To: Kurt Zeilenga <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [newprep] other customers of *prep
> 
> Le 10-05-14 16:49, Kurt Zeilenga a écrit :
>> Yaron, Glen, Hannes, Scott,
>> 
>> On May 14, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Marc Blanchet wrote:
>> 
>>> while reading draft-sheffer-emu-eap-eke-06.txt, I stumbled upon:
>>> 
>>> section 5.1
>>>   If the password is non-ASCII, it SHOULD be normalized by the sender
>>>   before the EAP-EKE message is constructed.  The normalization method
>>>   is SASLprep, [RFC4013].  Note that the password is not null-
>>>   terminated.
>> 
>> Kind of odd to apply SASLprep only when password is non-ASCII.  Does this 
>> mean that ASCII control characters, which SASLprep prohibits, are allowed 
>> when the password is ASCII?  I would hope not.
>> 
>> SASLprep should really be applied here unconditionally to the password text.
>> 
>> I also note that one also needs to specify which SASLprep inputs are to be 
>> treated as "query" strings and which are "stored" strings [RFC3454].  I 
>> suspect (I haven't actually read your draft) the former would be the 
>> appropriate choice here.
>> 
> 
> Kurt, this draft is in last call, therefore I think you should send your 
> comments to iesg/ietf ml.
> 
> Marc.
> 
>> -- Kurt
> 
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