It's a frustrating situation because if Windows were to support all of the encryption features that their competition does, indeed, that my _phone_ supports, I would not need to compromise. I personally believe a company can deliver a top product without sacrificing their profit margin. Microsoft falls short of this, and here we have a perfect example of precisely how. I also think their tiered version method they introduced with Vista is dishonest, as a result of this. But we're getting off track.
It's too bad the XSupplicant project is not yet to the point of stability with Windows 7 64-Bit. I haven't had an opportunity to test it with 32-Bit yet, I imagine it works okay with Windows XP, but many of our employees are using Windows 7 on newer laptops. If that app worked, this wouldn't be a problem. If you ask me, that is the nature of the beast when it comes to computers. It'll work in a month, or a year, or several years, but for now we just beat our heads against the wall. In quick response to Stefan, I'm not associated with eduroam, however, I have found the eduroam instructions to be very helpful in getting this working as far as I have. In particular, the iphone support. So thanks for that. :) On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Alan DeKok <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve Hopps wrote: >> The reasons you stated are why I think this is near impossible. Our >> passwords are stored with md5... I'm not fond of the idea that in >> order to get this to work, we have to compromise our security policy. > > Life is a series of compromises. Deal with it. > >> As for the Windows salesman, leaving out features from one OS to sell >> a newer OS is one of the reasons I cannot stand your company. > > I'll take that as "adding more features in newer releases". > > Windows 8 is the first version which supports TTLS. While this should > arguably have been done years ago, it's nice to have it now. > > And if you're arguing against upgrades, you can do the same for > FreeRADIUS. Version 3.0 will support RadSec (RADIUS over SSL). Version > 2.x will not. Ever. > >> That >> said, Windows 7 is great in my opinion, like Windows XP. If you really >> care, put pressure on your higher ups to extend the functionality to >> support things like EAP/TTLS and PAP. I'm sure there's other >> deficiencies.. How is it right to sell "ultimate" versions of an OS >> for $150-200 when they dont even support as many features as a free, >> open source system? > > They have different priorities. > > FreeRADIUS is about making software that works. > > Microsoft is about money. > > Guess which one works well, and which one has more money? > > Alan DeKok. > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
