Integrated EAP authentication and CA, Server and Cleint certificates

Jouni Malinen jkmaline
Mon Feb 7 06:28:16 PST 2005


On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:12:23AM -0800, fake wrote:

> I want to know do i need the certificates(CA and Server) when using
> hostapd's integrated EAP authentication, or it can just ignore the
> certificates.

Yes, if you care about security.

>               Also same question on wpa_supplicant side that do i need
> to CA and client certificates when on other side it is integrated EAP
> authenticator of hostapd. I want to test just EAP/TLS functionality.

EAP-TLS requires both client and server certificates.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA




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