eap Mailing List: RE: Issue 174: Mandatory to Implement

[Glen Zorn (gwz]

Bernard Aboba <mailto:aboba [at] internaut.com> writes:

>> Is the use of EAP MD5-Challenge actually illegal or just ill-advised?
> 
> I believe that it's illegal -- mutual authentication is required.

That's too bad.  Is there any reason we need to get ourselves in the
same predicament (other than reducing code size for 802.11 implementers?

~gwz

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