TLS and MD5 with hostapd

Brian Beattie beattie
Mon Feb 9 08:10:04 PST 2004


On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 01:41, Jim Thompson wrote:
> No, you don't want to use EAP/MD5 for 802.11.
> 
> Jim

And Jim knows everything, juts ask him.

So Jim, would you care to enlighten us as to why Brade does not want to
use EAP/MD5?  or should we just take your word for it?

> 
> ?????? writes:
> > to All,
> > 
> > I want to use EAP/TLS, EAP/MD5 via freeradius and hostapd.
> > In using EAP/TLS, hostap set WEP KEY automatically, 
> > So I set the MD5 user's crypt algorithm none.
> > ex) hostap_crypt_conf  -p  wlan0  07:11:23:14:01:06(the md5 user's mac)
> > NONE
> > but it doesn't work.
> > so What should I do if I use EAP/TLS and EAP/MD5 in the same AP?
> > 
> >  
> > from Brad Hur.
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