We are seeing considerable interest lately in ways of improving security for dial-up network access, beyond that provided by username and fixed, memorised passwords. We have just finished the initial development of a token-based Radius authentication system for Radiator. It works with the iKey 1000 tokens from Rainbow (www.rainbow.com/ikey/index.html) These are cute devices about the size of your thumb that plug into a USB port. They contain an 8k file system and an encryption engine. We have some PC software that talks to these things and a Radiator module that does Access-Challenge with the NAS. The result is that a user cant log in unless they physically have a genuine iKey keyed to their name connected to the PC, and for which they have the PIN. We feel that this is most useful for ISP staff, and for staff of corporates with in-house or VPDN dialup access. Is there anyone on the list interested in this? If so, please contact me directly -- Mike McCauley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open System Consultants Pty. Ltd Unix, Perl, Motif, C++, WWW 24 Bateman St Hampton, VIC 3188 Australia http://www.open.com.au Phone +61 3 9598-0985 Fax +61 3 9598-0955 Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server anywhere. SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+, password, NT, Emerald, Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, etc etc on Unix, Win95/8, NT, Rhapsody === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
