Re: [HOKEY] WGLC: draft-ietf-hokey-preauth-ps-02

[Yoshihiro Ohba <yohba at tari.toshiba.com>]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 02:54:17PM +0300, Preetida.Vinayakray-Jani at nokia.com wrote:
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> >Direct pre-authentication and indirect pre-authentication are 
> >the same in that both happen before MN performs L2 secure 
> >association to CA.
> >Context Binding, described in Section 5.2, will create binding 
> >between link-layer independent context and link-layer specific 
> >context, so that L2 secure association can succeed when L2 
> >handover happens.
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> [Preeti] I.e. context bidning is carrying link specific or independent
> authentication pareamters. However what I mean by partial authentication
> is that with proper context binding perhaps L3 authentication can be
> successful, but one can only be sure about such successful
> authentication if L2 authetnication is also successful. Do you agree? 

If I understand your point correctly, any pre-authentication including
media-specific pre-authentication such as 802.11i pre-authentication
might have the same characteristic, i.e., one can only be sure about
successful authentication if 802.11i 4-way handshake is also
successful.

Yoshihiro Ohba


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