I-D ACTION:draft-black-ips-iscsi-dhchap-01.txt

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	Title		: DH-CHAP: Diffie-Hellman Enhanced CHAP for iSCSI
	Author(s)	: D. Black
	Filename	: draft-black-ips-iscsi-dhchap-01.txt
	Pages		: 15
	Date		: 18-Apr-02
	
This draft describes an authentication mechanism based on enhancing 
CHAP [RFC 1994] with a Diffie-Hellman Exchange (see Section 22.1 of 
[Schneier] in order to prevent a passive eavesdropper from 
acquiring sufficient information to perform an off-line dictionary 
attack on the CHAP secret.  The use of this authentication 
mechanism with iSCSI [iSCSI] is discussed, along with a brief 
comparison to the existing CHAP and SRP authentication mechanisms 
in iSCSI. 
Caution should be exercised in drawing inferences from the fact 
that the author of this draft is one of the chairs of the IP 
Storage Working Group.  This draft is an individual submission that 
the IP Storage Working Group is free to adopt, modify, reject, 
fold, spindle, and/or mutilate as it sees fit.

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