Does Hostap supports EAP-TTLS & EAP-PEAP authentication mechanism?

[Preethi Mohan]

Thank you very much for your reply.But the first point I didn't
understood.Can you please explain it a little more.You have given the
following reply.

> The current development version of hostapd has support for EAP-MD5 and
> EAP-TLS. However, hostapd can be used with an external authentication
> server to provide EAP-TTLS and EAP-PEAP support. 

Is there an internal server; that supports MD5 and TLS ;comes with
hostapd. I was under tha assumption that an external server such as
RADIUS is required to test EAP-MD5,EAP-TLS.Can you please clarify?

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Preethi



On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:43:52 -0800, Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:49:50AM +0530, Preethi Mohan wrote:
> 
> >     I'm new to 802.1x standard .I'm learning about the
> > authenticator.For this downloaded HostAP source code from the hostap
> > site.From the readme I got the information that HostAP code supports
> > EAP-MD5 & EAP-TLS and these two EAP types are tested also.
> >
> > But I want to clarify whether the hostap authenticator supports
> > EAP-TTLS & EAP - PEAP authentication also?
> 
> The current development version of hostapd has support for EAP-MD5 and
> EAP-TLS. However, hostapd can be used with an external authentication
> server to provide EAP-TTLS and EAP-PEAP support. In addition, I will
> likely add support for integrated EAP-TTLS and EAP-PEAP at some point.
> 
> You did not mention hostapd specifically, so some info about the other
> parts.. The client part of Host AP project, i.e., wpa_supplicant, does
> support both EAP-TTLS and EAP-PEAP in the current release.
> 
> > If not is there any change required in the authenticator side to
> > support TTLS & PEAP.Or changes are required only in client and server
> > side?
> 
> When using an external server, no changes are needed in the
> authenticator.
> 
> > Also Can I use RADIUS & XSupplicant to test TTLS&PEAP?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >
> >
> > Can anyone please help me .
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Preethi
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> Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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