Re: Closing on shared-key authentication

Mark,

  Please read below your comments.

At 11:39 AM 10/11/96 -0700, you wrote:
>> No, you should certainly do something more than just send the password
>> encrypted.  You should avoid sending the password at all, encrypted or
>> otherwise.  Some sort of challenge/response mechanism would be
>> appropriate, but you are protected from eavesdroppers if you encrypt
>> the data.
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>True.  I'm clearly misunderstanding you then.  You said previously:
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>>There is no need to add a mechanism
>>to TLS when all existing protocols already have a password mechanims.
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>I assumed the password mechanisms that you meant there were
>cleartext ones, not more sophisticated ones based on challenge-response
>or keyed hashes or anything else.  Was I wrong?
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>I believe there is a need to add a mechanism to TLS because, while all
>existing protocols have password mechanisms, they're lousy ones.

  Here here!  I agree. The current password mechanism is definatly flawed
or is te easely accessed.  And chalange/response mechanism might also be 
included as well as an option or feature.

Reguards,
 
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>- Marc
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