On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 at 16:02, Thilo Molitor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2022, 16:32:55 CEST schrieb Dave Cridland:
> > Small point: GS2 doesn't ever allow clients to know if channel binding is
> > proven, since the channel binding data is passed in the clear to the
> > server. It does prove the server saw the channel binding data as sent by
> > the client, but not whether the server can see the same channel.
>
> Surely the GS2 implementing server would abort authentication if the
> channel-
> binding data did not match it's own channel. right?


That would be a sensible and conformant implementation, yes.

 But what I was meaning is that the client cannot prove that the server has
done so. It's mostly an irrelevance, really - but when we're discussing
what can and cannot be proven at either end, I think it's important to be
accurate.

Dave.
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