On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:00:02PM -0500, Kurt Jeschke wrote:
> I have been watching the conversations recently about who is using which
> RADIUS.  I am curious, though, as to how those who use Kerberos
> authentication are planning to implement 802.1x and 802.11i?  Is anyone
> looking at using EAP-TTLS-PAP with a FreeRADIUS proxy to an MIT K5 KDC?
>
> Kurt

At Penn, we're also (reluctantly) looking at EAP-TTLS with PAP as
the "inner" authentication method. We were really hoping for the
the emergence of an EAP method that used Kerberos natively, but
things don't look very promising on this front. EAP-GSS didn't pan
out for a variety of reasons. And a planned attempt by the IETF's
Kerberos working group to develop an EAP-Kerberos method hasn't
begun yet.

In the meantime, we're considering a deployment of EAP-TTLS to
tunnel the user's Kerberos password to the RADIUS server, which
subsequently performs Kerberos password verification against our
KDCs. We're averse to any solution that involves the transmission
of a Kerberos password over the network (even if it's encrypted
in TLS,) but don't currently have any good alternatives for
802.1X/802.11i.

We use Radiator (http://www.open.com.au/radiator/), for which we've
written our own Kerberos password verification module.

I'm also interested in finding out what the other Kerberos schools
are doing.

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