Subject: [6band] FW: New Version Notification for draft-aura-eap-noob-00.txt

From: Mohit Sethi M <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:34:31 +0000

Dear all

We have submitted a new IETF Draft titled “Nimble out-of-band authentication for EAP (EAP-NOOB)” to the saag mailing list. We thought it might be interesting to some folks here as well since the draft deals with secure bootstrapping.  

The draft defines an EAP method where the authentication is based on a user-assisted out-of-band (OOB) channel between the server and peer. It is intended as a generic bootstrapping solution for Internet-of-Things devices which have no pre-configured authentication credentials and which are not yet registered on the authentication server. Consider devices you just bought or borrowed.

The EAP-NOOB method is more generic than most ad-hoc bootstrapping solutions in that it supports many types of OOB channels. We specify the exact in-band messages but only the OOB message contents and not the OOB channel details. Also, EAP-NOOB supports ubicomp devices with only output (e.g. display) or only input (e.g. camera). Moreover, it makes combined use of both secrecy and integrity of the OOB channel for more robust security than the ad-hoc solutions. We have put a lot of effort into designing a robust security protocol.

For one application example, we have used an earlier version of the protocol for bootstrapping security for ubiquitous displays: the user can configure wireless network access, link the device to a cloud service, and register ownership of the device for a specific cloud user – all in one simple step of scanning a QR code with a smart phone. There seemed to more potential to this idea than just using it for our own system, and thus we decided to write a generic EAP method for out-of-band authentication.

The draft is available here:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-aura-eap-noob-00

Please see if you can make use of it. We look forward to your feedback and comments here or on the saag mailing list.

Thanks
/--Mohit

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Dear all

We have just submitted a new IETF Draft titled “Nimble out-of-band authentication for EAP (EAP-NOOB)”.

The draft defines an EAP method where the authentication is based on a user-assisted out-of-band (OOB) channel between the server and peer. It is intended as a generic bootstrapping solution for Internet-of-Things devices which have no pre-configured authentication credentials and which are not yet registered on the authentication server. Consider devices you just bought or borrowed.

The EAP-NOOB method is more generic than most ad-hoc bootstrapping solutions in that it supports many types of OOB channels. We specify the exact in-band messages but only the OOB message contents and not the OOB channel details. Also, EAP-NOOB supports ubicomp devices with only output (e.g. display) or only input (e.g. camera). Moreover, it makes combined use of both secrecy and integrity of the OOB channel for more robust security than the ad-hoc solutions. We have put a lot of effort into designing a robust security protocol.

For one application example, we have used an earlier version of the protocol for bootstrapping security for ubiquitous displays: the user can configure wireless network access, link the device to a cloud service, and register ownership of the device for a specific cloud user – all in one simple step of scanning a QR code with a smart phone. There seemed to more potential to this idea than just using it for our own system, and thus we decided to write a generic EAP method for out-of-band authentication.

The draft is available here:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-aura-eap-noob-00

Please see if you can make use of it. We look forward to your feedback and comments.

Regards
/--Mohit

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Subject: 	New Version Notification for draft-aura-eap-noob-00.txt
Date: 	Mon, 08 Feb 2016 04:30:35 -0800
From: 	[email-masked]
To: 	Tuomas Aura <[email-masked]>, Mohit Sethi <[email-masked]>

A new version of I-D, draft-aura-eap-noob-00.txt has been successfully submitted by Tuomas Aura and posted to the IETF repository.

Name:			draft-aura-eap-noob
Revision:		00
Title:			Nimble out-of-band authentication for EAP (EAP-NOOB)
Document date:	2016-02-08
Group:			Individual Submission
Pages:			35
URL:			https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-aura-eap-noob-00.txt
Status:			https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-aura-eap-noob/
Htmlized:		https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-aura-eap-noob-00

Abstract:
    Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) [RFC3748] provides support
    for multiple authentication methods.  This document defines the EAP-
    NOOB authentication method for nimble out-of-band (OOB)
    authentication and key derivation.  This EAP method is intended for
    bootstrapping all kinds of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices that have
    a minimal user interface and no pre-configured authentication
    credentials.  The method makes use of a user-assisted one-directional
    OOB channel between the peer device and authentication server.

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