Name check in BEEP TLS
Steve Hanna <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:56:16 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.beep |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
In looking through the description of the TLS transport security profile in RFC 3080, I expected to see some information about how the server certificates are used to perform server authentication. Something like section 3.1 of RFC 2818. Otherwise, you just have an armor-plated pipe to an unknown party. Is the idea to use SASL after the TLS transport is up to allow the two peers to authenticate each other? If so, I hope that authentication is tied to the TLS session in some way so you know there's no man in the middle. Sorry for the newbie questions. I'm considering proposing BEEP for a new protocol I'm working on and want to make sure I understand the security properties. I'll let you know how it comes out. Thanks, Steve Hanna Funk Software