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Re: Comments on draft-carroll-dynmobileip-cdma-04.txt



Nelson, David wrote:

This looks pretty good to me.  I'd suggest a few changes, as shown
below:

This protocol defines how RADIUS (RFC 2865) is used in a
specific application using vendor-specific protocol extensions.
It has been reviewed by the RADIUS community within the IETF and
the following issues have been noted: (1) This document specifies
returning an attribute in an Access-Reject message. According to
RFC 2865 an Access-Reject packet MAY only include Reply-Message
and Proxy-State attributes. Subsequent RFCs allow for other
attributes to be included in an Access-Reject packet, but these
are included to indicate the reason the
authentication/authorization
has failed. It is a normative requirement of RFC 2865 that
receipt
of an Access-Reject at the NAS terminate the session of the
attached
network host. This document violates that normative requirement.
Instead, the use of an Access-Challenge packet would have been
appropriate according to RFC 2865. (2) The security
considerations
of this specification rely, in part, on the specific cellular
telephony infrastructure used in this application, and the
protocol
extensions as described herein potentially exhibit inadequate security properties when used outside of the specific deployment
environment. As a result, the use of this specification in other
circumstances than those described in this document or as a basis


for new work is strongly discouraged.


I like your text. (But I haven't looked at the security considerations
to verify that problem 2 exists, presumably someone has...)

--Jari


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