Re: draft-nordmark-multi6-threats-01.txt

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>]

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On 2004-06-10, at 14.53, Erik Nordmark wrote:

>
>> later on you ask:
>>    "[TBD: Does one-way authentication, without mutual authentication,
>> add a
>>     different class of applications?]"
>>
>> As i understand this section, the analysis is divided in two: first 
>> the
>> initiator end and then the responding end.
>> The initiator, always care about the identity of the target, since it
>> wants to communicate with a given node. So. in this part you discuss
>> the possibility of using TLS to provide strong authentication of the
>> target
>> Next you discuss the responder p.o.v. and you discuss different
>> mechanisms that the responder can use to verify the initiator.
>>
>> So my reading is that responder verification and initiator 
>> verification
>> are independent from one another and that the one way authentication 
>> is
>> already considered in the analysis. am i missing something?
>
> Yes, you're right. Thanks for making that clear to me.

But doesn't one-way authentication without mutual authentication imply 
a different trust model? I.e one end chooses to not to authenticate 
while the other end does authenticate.

- - kurtis -

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