Re: Wireless Provisioning Service Protocol

2005-10-14 Thread Artur Hecker
hi Josh sorry to catch up so late on this. I mean EAP over RADIUS within a roaming consortium. A good example of one, which I'm involved in, is eduroam (www.eduroam.org). i took a look at this, it is mostly TERENA stuff for RADIUS... imho it only concerns the provider-provider interface

Re: Wireless Provisioning Service Protocol

2005-10-07 Thread Artur Hecker
hi Josh i know it's a bit OT but i think that it might still be interesting for some of us. I'll try and keep this brief, because it's a bit OT. WPS doesn't seem to offer anything particularly novel, besides a proprietary mechanism for configuring the Windows supplicant. imho it's as

Re: Wireless Provisioning Service Protocol

2005-10-07 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, the community was always critisizing MS before. they did hire some of the best scientists (look at their RD stuff), so why shouldn't they invent new things now? if its cross-platform then yes, they can invent things ;-) (bonus if it is Open Source too - so the community can see any

Re: Wireless Provisioning Service Protocol

2005-10-07 Thread Josh Howlett
Hi Artur, A much more sane approach, IMHO, is simple authentication-by-proxy as implemented by several roaming consortia. are we still talking about L2 security? if yes, can you provide some references on this? i don't know anything about it. I mean EAP over RADIUS within a roaming

Re: Wireless Provisioning Service Protocol

2005-10-06 Thread Artur Hecker
hmmm. i am not sure if the question is to be impressed. it is simply true that some signaling is necessary to allow user to choose a network (e.g. an operator). in usual hotspots you end up with a web page which can present you all the information you need (e.g. prices, names, available

Re: Wireless Provisioning Service Protocol

2005-10-06 Thread Josh Howlett
Artur Hecker wrote: hmmm. i am not sure if the question is to be impressed. I admit I was being a bit flippant. it is simply true that some signaling is necessary to allow user to choose a network (e.g. an operator). in usual hotspots you end up with a web page which can present you

Re: Wireless Provisioning Service Protocol

2005-10-05 Thread Michael Griego
Hey, Michael, From my recollection, implementing WPS would require first implementing PEAPv2, and there hasn't been any movement there yet. --Mike King, Michael wrote: Has any thought been given on adding the WPS (Wireless Provisioning Service) Protocol to FreeRADIUS?

Re: Wireless Provisioning Service Protocol

2005-10-05 Thread Josh Howlett
I read the 132 page spec last night. Personally, I wasn't terribly impressed. josh. King, Michael wrote: Has any thought been given on adding the WPS (Wireless Provisioning Service) Protocol to FreeRADIUS? http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/randz/p