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Nimble Out-of-Band Authentication for EAP (EAP-NOOB)
RFC 9140

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2022-01-04
(System) IANA registries were updated to include RFC9140
2021-12-30
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 9140, changed title to 'Nimble Out-of-Band Authentication for EAP (EAP-NOOB)', changed abstract to 'The Extensible …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 9140, changed title to 'Nimble Out-of-Band Authentication for EAP (EAP-NOOB)', changed abstract to 'The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) provides support for multiple authentication methods.  This document defines the EAP-NOOB authentication method for nimble out-of-band (OOB) authentication and key derivation.  The EAP method is intended for bootstrapping all kinds of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices that have no preconfigured authentication credentials.  The method makes use of a user-assisted, one-directional, out-of-band (OOB) message between the peer device and authentication server to authenticate the in-band key exchange.  The device must have a nonnetwork input or output interface, such as a display, microphone, speaker, or blinking light, that can send or receive dynamically generated messages of tens of bytes in length.', changed pages to 51, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2021-12-30, changed IESG state to RFC Published)
2021-12-30
(System) RFC published