draft-josefsson-password-auth-00.txt

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Thu Mar 29 17:21:29 CEST 2007


On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 04:28:30PM +0200, Martin Rex wrote:
> Most challenge-response protocols perform a unidirectional
> authentication of the client/initiator to the server/acceptor only,
> and for those the authentication scheme usually does not have
> a name for the acceptor.

Understood.  Perhaps then what I should have said is that when mutual
authentication is requested then the password should be salted with the
acceptor name.


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