CARD: Details on signing unsolicited CARD Reply messages
Marco Liebsch <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:48:39 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.seamoby |
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| Organization | NEC Europe Ltd. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
"...Now unsolicited CARD replies are to be authenticated with signatures, which MN can verify with the public key of the AR, that MN has learned from somewhere. This is very vague. The description of CARD should be sufficient for two implementations to be interoperable. IMO you should either remove the whole unsolicited CARD reply functionality, or clarify the use of signatures so that it will actually work between two independent implementations." To be honest, removing the advertisement of unsolicited CARD Replies is not the solution I would support. The issue of authentication of advertised messages is common to many other protocols. The question is whether or not the CARD protocol spec sould be specific to a solution. If there are more efficient solutions in the future, why not keeping the flexibility to adopt the CARD protocol to that mechanism? But I am also fine with adding some more details here. Any proposals for details on a mechanisms? marco