(RADIATOR) Secure reliable Radius?

Guðbjörn S. Hreinsson gsh at centrum.is
Wed Feb 2 03:02:54 CST 2005



Cheers,

> We are thinking of a new AuthBy RELIABLERADIUS which would open a TCP
> connection to a remote Radiator and send Radius packets over a TCP
> transport instead of UDP. The remote Radiator would have a Server 
> RELIABLERADIUS to listen for such requests.
> 
> Clearly, such a TCP connection could also be secured with SSL or TLS,
> using client and/or server certificates to authenticate each end and 
> encrypt the Radius traffic too.
> 
> The benefits of this would be:
> 
> 1. No more lost packets
> 2. High security encryption of Radius traffic
> 3. mutual authentication of each end of the tcp transport.
> 
> Obviously this provides some of the features that are part of Diameter,
> and our forthcoming raDiameter product will include these too, but in 
> the meantime....
> 
> anyone interested?

Yes, we would be interested. 
-GSH

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