[RADIATOR] Support for EAP-PWD ?

[Heikki Vatiainen]

On 06/13/2012 05:11 PM, alan buxey wrote:

>> Fredrik and others, can you tell how this would be used? Do you have
>> ideas how much demand for this would be and e.g., what clients there are?
> 
> its in the latest wpa_supplicant - which should mean that the next iteration of
> Android will have support for it. likely (*likely*) that it might be in the next
> OSX release too.

That would be large user base, if that would happen. IOS 6 is also
nearing completion, any word about its EAP-pwd support?

> in terms of demand - well, its not available yet but for federated roaming it
> means only 3 packets being sent back and forwards rather than 11 packets...and it
> also means goodbye to the requirement for certs...so goodbye CA/cert client
> headaches 

That's certainly tempting. Less packets would also mean less load for
proxies (especially roots in federated roaming) and authenticating
servers while the authentication would be faster too.

Thanks for the input.
Heikki


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