Hello all, Those of you with an interest in 802.1x EAP authentication will know that a number of the now common EAP authentication protocols require a server certificate and sometimes a client PKI certificate. We ship some test certificates with Radiator to assist with evaluation and testing, but in a production deployment you will need real certificates from a public or private certificate authority.
Further PKI certificates are relevant for IPSec as well as other SSL secured applications. Certificates from a public certificate authority such as Verisign are expensive (US250 per year per certificate are common). If you run a large number of TLS clients or Web Browsers client certificates, this would fast become very expensive. Private certificate authority software (allowing you to generate you own certificates for internal use) are frequently cumbersome and expensive to deploy and maintain. We expect soon to be able to offer web-based private certificate authority software suitable for a Unix/OpenSSL/Apache/MySQL environment. You can use this certificate authority to generate 802.1x server and client certificates for use with Radiator and Windows, as well as web browser client certificates, private web server certificates etc. If you might be interested in this type of software, please respond to me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I can provide further details. Cheers. -- 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, Active Directory, EAP, TLS, TTLS, PEAP etc on Unix, Windows, MacOS etc. === Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.