Subject: [Nea] WGLC on NEA Asokan Attack Analysis

From: Stephen Hanna <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:58:22 -0400

As previously agreed, the NEA Asokan Attack Analysis
has been changed into a NEA WG draft. This draft has
received several years of discussion and review in
our WG, dating back to its initial publication as
draft-salowey-nea-asokan-00.txt back in October 2010.

We agreed to make this document a WG draft because
we found its analysis essential to describing the need
for TLS channel bindings to prevent Asokan attacks.
Both PT-TLS and PT-EAP contain informational but
important references to this document. For those
documents to be fully understood, it's essential
for the NEA Asokan Attack Analysis to become an
informational RFC.

Therefore, I'd like to ask all active NEA WG
participants to please review the latest draft
of the NEA Asokan Attack Analysis and to send
comments, corrections, or questions to the WG
list. Please complete this Working Group Last
Call review within two weeks (by 1600 GMT on
Friday, May 11 - noon EDT or 9 AM PDT). If any
substantive issues have been raised, we'll get
those resolved. And if there's WG consensus to
ask the IESG to advance the document to
Informational RFC status, we'll do that.

If you don't have any comments on the document
but you agree that it should advance to
Informational RFC status, you can just send
an email in response to this one saying so.
And if you think that it should not advance,
please send an email saying that also. These
emails will be useful in judging WG consensus.

Here's a link to the draft for review:

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-nea-asokan/

At only eight pages in length (and really only
four pages of content), I think you will find it
an easy but interesting read. In any event, you
should learn something. And something quite
relevant to NEA. If you've already read the
document before, a quick skim should help you
confirm that you're comfortable with the latest
version (or not). Your brief review and comment
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Steve