A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Internet Architecture Board Working Group of the IETF. Title : Issues in Identifier Comparison for Security Purposes Author(s) : Dave Thaler Filename : draft-iab-identifier-comparison-09.txt Pages : 26 Date : 2013-03-10 Abstract: Identifiers such as hostnames, URIs, IP addresses, and email addresses are often used in security contexts to identify security principals and resources. In such contexts, an identifier presented via some protocol is often compared using some policy to make security decisions such as whether the security principal may access the resource, what level of authentication or encryption is required, etc. If the parties involved in a security decision use different algorithms to compare identifiers, then failure scenarios ranging from denial of service to elevation of privilege can result. This document provides a discussion of these issues that designers should consider when defining identifiers and protocols, and when constructing architectures that use multiple protocols. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-identifier-comparison There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-identifier-comparison-09 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-iab-identifier-comparison-09 Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt
