On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 12:48:32PM +0100, Werner Jaeger wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Werner Jaeger <werner.jae...@t-systems.com> > > Package name : ppp-2.4.5-eaptls-mppe > Version : 0.98 > Upstream Author : Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>, Jan Just Keijser > <janj...@nikhef.nl> > URL : http://samba.org/ppp/ > License : BSD > Programming Lang: C > Description : PPP daemon with EAP-TLS authentication support > > This package contains an extended Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon > with support for EAP-TLS authentication. > > The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP; RFC 3748) is a > security protocol that can be used with PPP. It provides a means > to plug in multiple optional authentication methods. > > Transport Level Security (TLS; RFC 2246) provides for mutual > authentication, integrity-protected ciphersuite negotiation and > key exchange between two endpoints. It also provides for optional > MPPE encryption. > > EAP-TLS (RFC 2716) incapsulates the TLS messages in EAP packets, > allowing TLS mutual authentication to be used as a generic EAP > mechanism. It also provides optional encryption using the MPPE > protocol. > > This authentication method can be used in both client or server mode.
Hello, as far as I know Jan Just Keijser is already talking with upstream ppp to integrate his patch into mainline, have you talked with him prior to filing this ITP? Kind regards Harald Jenny > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/20101105114832.7272.37688.report...@localhost6.localdomain6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101105122017.ga9...@harald-has.a-little-linux-box.at
