RE: [security-services] Proposal to add new AuthenticationMethod

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Hal Lockhart <>
Date
2002-04-04T16:40:08+00:00
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RE: [security-services] Proposal to add new AuthenticationMethod
Title: RE: [security-services] Proposal to add new AuthenticationMethod

I agree with this, but the URI: should be consistent with current scheme for things defined in RFCs. See below.

> With this email I'd like to propose that we add an identifier 

> for Secure

> Remote Password (SRP) protocol (specified in RFC 2945) to the list of

> AuthhenticationMethods. Brifely, SRP is based on Diffie-Hellman and

> provides a more secure way of authenticating based on a 

> password (or for

> that matter any number of secrets).  The proposed change 

> would be to add

> the following to section 7.1 of Core:

> 

> Secure Remote Passowrd (SRP)

> URI: urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:am:SRP 

For consitency this should be:

URI: urn:ietf:rfc:2945

> The authentication was performed by means of Secure Remote Password

> protocol as specified in RFC 2945

Hal