(RADIATOR) simplest and highest performance form of encryption EAP

[Jim Michael]

I think you are confusing encryption with authentication mechanisms. When it comes to wireless, you have a limited number of choices for encrypting the wireless data:

1) old WEP. It's broken.
2) WPA with TKIP (basically, it's rotating WEP keys). Much harder to break, but not perfect.
3) WPA with AES, the new encryption standard. Your hardware must support AES to use it, but its as good as it gets today.

TLS, TTLS, PEAP, LEAP etc are not concerned with encrypting the data between the access point and the client, they are mechanisms for securely *authenticating* users to a network.

Jim

>>> On 6/24/2005 at 7:53 am, "Theodore J. Knab" <tknab2 at washcoll.edu> wrote:
> What is the simplest to setup and best performance EAP for wireless ? 
> 
> I am worried that heavy encryption will slow down performance on the 
> wireless network.
> 
> Additionally, I do not want to spend much time messing around with self 
> signed TLS cert to use
> EAP-TLS.
> 
> Thus, minimal encryption is desired.
> 
> We are using Cisco AiroNET 1200 series and Alactel Aierspace, which was also 
> recently purchased
> by Cisco.



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