A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Common Authentication Technology Next Generation Working Group of the IETF. Title : Channel Binding Signalling for the Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface Author(s) : Nicolas Williams Filename : draft-ietf-kitten-channel-bound-flag-00.txt Pages : 13 Date : 2013-07-07 Abstract: Channel binding is a technique that allows applications to use a secure channel at a lower layer without having to use authentication at that lower layer. The concept of channel binding comes from the Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface (GSS- API). It turns out that the semantics commonly implemented are different that those specified in the base GSS-API RFC (RFC2743), and that that specification has a serious bug. This document addresses both, the inconsistency as-implemented and the specification bug. This Internet-Draft proposes the addition of a "channel bound" return flag for the GSS_Init_sec_context() and GSS_Accept_sec_context() functions. Two behaviors are specified: a default, safe behavior reflecting existing implementation deployments, and a behavior that is only safe when the application specifically tells the GSS-API that it (the application) supports the new behavior. Additional API elements related to this are also added, including a new security context establishment API. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-kitten-channel-bound-flag There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-kitten-channel-bound-flag-00 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
