eap Mailing List: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pppext-eap-ttls-05.txt

[Jari Arkko (jari.arkko]

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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Point-to-Point Protocol Extensions Working 
> Group of the IETF.
>
> 	Title		: EAP Tunneled TLS Authentication Protocol (EAP-TTLS)
> 	Author(s)	: P. Funk, et al. 
> 	Filename	: draft-ietf-pppext-eap-ttls-05.txt
> 	Pages		: 52
> 	Date		: 2004-7-20
> 	
> EAP-TTLS is an EAP protocol that extends EAP-TLS. In EAP-TLS, a TLS 
>    handshake is used to mutually authenticate a client and server. EAP-
>    TTLS extends this authentication negotiation by using the secure 
>    connection established by the TLS handshake to exchange additional 
>    information between client and server. In EAP-TTLS, the TLS 
>    handshake may be mutual; or it may be one-way, in which only the 
>    server is authenticated to the client. The secure connection 
>    established by the handshake may then be used to allow the server to 
>    authenticate the client using existing, widely-deployed 
>    authentication infrastructures such as RADIUS. The authentication of
>    the client may itself be EAP, or it may be another authentication 
>    protocol such as PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP or MS-CHAP-V2.
>
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pppext-eap-ttls-05.txt