Kevin,

We recently encountered a similar situation where Windows 8/8.1/10 devices were 
onboarding fine and some days later failing to authenticate and unable to 
re-onboard.

Turns out the Radius certificate (also self-signed root & intermediate) was 
revoked and there was no clear indication of this in the Radius configuration 
and Windows devices were silently failing. I eventually found and unrevoked the 
Radius certificate and the devices associated with no issue.

Apparently Windows 8+ devices are much more particular about revocation status 
versus other operating systems that simply ensure valid certificate dates. 
Cloudpath did add a feature request to add revocation status to the Radius 
configuration pane in the Enrollment System.

Tobias Heaton
Network Operations
University of New Hampshire


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin McCormick
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 1:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS Windows 8 and 10 Problems

Clients on Windows 8 and 10 fail on boarding. Macs, Windows 7, IOS, and 
Androids does not seem to have any issues.

The radius server is issuing the certificates and the Windows 8 and 10 
appear to be saying that the radius server is reporting the certificates 
revoked.

We can export the certs from the Windows 8 or 10 machine, and then check 
the certs on Windows 7 using the command 'certutil -f -urlfetch -verify 
cert_name.cer' and the radius server is reporting the certs are fine.

We use our own Root CA and Intermediate CA.

Kevin McCormick
uTech Network Services
Western Illinois University

On 9/24/2015 11:55 AM, Turner, Ryan H wrote:
> Let me see if I can clear things up...
>
> Your clients were successfully onboarded, and when the clients connect, they 
> are reporting that the radius server certificates being sent are revoked?  Or 
> are you saying that your clients are reporting that the radius servers are 
> saying the client certificates are revoked?
>
> If I read the error, it would indicate to me that your clients are having 
> issues with the radius server certificates.  Who issued the certs?
>
> Ryan H Turner
> Senior Network Engineer
> The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> CB 1150 Chapel Hill, NC 27599
> +1 919 445 0113 Office
> +1 919 274 7926 Mobile
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin McCormick
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 12:00 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS Windows 8 and 10 Problems
>
> I know many of you are using EAP-TLS and CloudPath on boarding.
>
> We have ran in to an issue where some Windows 8 and 10 machines will say the 
> server said the certificates are revoked, but they are not revoked.
> We have checked the things like time being correct. We did discover the 
> command 'certutil -f -urlfetch -verify cert_name.cer' will work just fine on 
> Windows 7, but crashes on Windows 8 and Windows 10. The event viewer is 
> showing these errors.
>
> "The certificate received from the remote server has been revoked. This means 
> that the certificate authority that issued the certificate has invalidated 
> it. The SSL connection request has failed. The attached data contains the 
> server certificate."  -- Attached is the root CA.
>
> "A fatal alert was generated and sent to the remote endpoint. This may result 
> in termination of the connection. The TLS protocol defined fatal error code 
> is 44. The Windows SChannel error state is 552."
>
> I have tried googling the problem and and have come up empty.
>
> CouldPath has told our security admin that our university seems to be the 
> only one having this issue.
>
> Makes me wonder if our certs are being generated with incorrect settings for 
> Windows 8 and Windows 10.
>
> What algorithm and key length are you using?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Kevin McCormick
> uTech Network Services
> Western Illinois University
>
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