Re: dialback in DNA

Philipp Hancke <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:53:15 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.xmpp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 13.10.2014 16:24, schrieb Peter Saint-Andre - &yet:
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> Matt and I propose adding the following text to ยง7:
>
>     Although the PKIX prooftype uses the XMPP Server Dialback protocol

reuses?

>     [XEP-0220] for signalling between servers, this framework document

[XEP-0220] _syntax_ for ...?

>     does not define the exchange of dialback keys (also specified in
>     [XEP-0220]) as a DNA prooftype.  However, a future specification, or

but doesn't use the semantics for the generation and validation of 
dialback keys?

I'd note that it will still work with server dialback because one of the 
design goals was backward compat. So we don't need to define anything.

>     an updated version of [XEP-0220], might define a DNA prooftype for
>     dialback

I just tried that and failed. Let's try to find some time and a 
whiteboard later this year.

> in a way that is consistent with this framework.

0220 currently says that dialback-without-dialing-back is not described. 
smart servers should not use the db:verify to do any weak identify 
verification of the dialback keys.
But if we make any such statements, they belong into the security 
considerations of xep-0220.