Add initial draft of SRP spec#28
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The description is missing a couple of advantageous aspects of the SRP protocol that might be worth including.
- Mutual authentication of the client and server, both can detect when the other does not know the password (poor-man's certificates)
- Zero-knowledge password protocol (wire-snooping gains the attacker nothing)
- It's almost as easy to use as PLAIN but with TLS-quality authentication (reference RFC 5054)
Additionally, I found your use of the word "key" here a little confusing. The server stores a "verifier" but it's more akin to a salted-hash of a password than it is to a PKI key... which is what the use of "key" in this context makes me think of. It's not an incorrect description but it took a bit of thinking to figure out what you meant.
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I've posted it to http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:34, tagged as "raw". @PSG-Sakari if/when you like. I'll copy-edit the text. |
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With this pull request, I'd like to open up a discussion about this draft SRP spec for zeroMQ.
It is by no means finished, but I'd like to gather feedback while I finish it and this is the best way of doing that.
A few of the things open for discussion, as well as obviously this whole document: