RE: iSCSI: New Lucent stmt on SRP

[Black_David@emc.com]

Amir,

Not completely, but it helps.  The IESG is now requesting
that the WG consider use of a version of CHAP strengthened
by an anonymous Diffie-Hellman key exchange as an alternative
to SRP.  In essence, the DH key exchange would produce the
CHAP challenge and replace passing it as part of the protocol.
In addition, I believe the IESG could accept CHAP without
DH strengthening if the WG believes that to be the best choice.

Ted Ts'o has done us the favor of posting many of the issues
that the IESG expects the WG to consider in his post from
this past Wednesday:

http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/mailinglists/ips/mail/msg09358.html

I would hope that a strawman design for this mechanism
could be posted in the next week, and apologize for the
delay ... I'm afraid that all attempts to clone me have
failed, and I need to ensure that some real cryptographers
check the resulting design before it is posted  ;-).

Thanks,
--David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amir Shalit [mailto:amir@astutenetworks.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 12:10 PM
> To: Black_David@emc.com; ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: RE: iSCSI: New Lucent stmt on SRP
> 
> 
> David,
> 
> Does it solve the SRP dilemma? 
> 
> Amir
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu [mailto:owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of
> Black_David@emc.com
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 7:03 AM
> To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: iSCSI: New Lucent stmt on SRP
> 
> 
>    http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/LUCENT-SRP
> 
> --David
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> David L. Black, Senior Technologist
> EMC Corporation, 42 South St., Hopkinton, MA  01748
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