(RADIATOR) 802.1x PKI certificate authority: expressions of interest sought

[Mike McCauley]

Hello all,

Those of you with an interest in 802.1x EAP authentication will know that a 
number of the now common EAP authentication protocols require a server 
certificate and sometimes a client PKI certificate. We ship some test 
certificates with Radiator to assist with evaluation and testing, but in a 
production deployment you will need real certificates from a public or 
private certificate authority.

Further PKI certificates are relevant for IPSec as well as other SSL secured 
applications.

Certificates from a public certificate authority such as Verisign are 
expensive (US250 per year per certificate are common). If you run a large 
number of TLS clients or Web Browsers client certificates, this would fast 
become very expensive.

Private certificate authority software (allowing you to generate you own 
certificates for internal use) are frequently cumbersome and expensive to 
deploy and maintain.

We expect soon to be able to offer web-based private certificate authority 
software suitable for a Unix/OpenSSL/Apache/MySQL environment. You can use 
this certificate authority to generate 802.1x server and client certificates 
for use with Radiator and Windows, as well as web browser client 
certificates, private web server certificates etc.

If you might be interested in this type of software, please respond to me 
directly at mikem at open.com.au and I can provide further details.

Cheers.


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Mike McCauley                               mikem at open.com.au
Open System Consultants Pty. Ltd            Unix, Perl, Motif, C++, WWW
24 Bateman St Hampton, VIC 3188 Australia   http://www.open.com.au
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