(RADIATOR) Secure reliable Radius?

[Mike McCauley]

Hello Ray,

On Thursday 10 February 2005 03:23, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> Absolutely interested!  Need beta testers? :)
Code is available for testing now, and we would appreciate your feedback.

Cheers.

>
> Ray
>
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:36:51PM +1000, Mike McCauley wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > we are thinking here about a new idea for Radiator, and wondering if
> > anyone else finds it interesting and perhaps useful.
> >
> > 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?
>
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