Developers behind FreeRADIUS, an open source implementation of the networking protocol RADIUS, are encouraging users to update to address an authentication bypass found in the server. Developers ...
From what I've read online, you cannot do wireless authentication with PEAP against an /etc/passwd file, is this correct? If I put a username and password pair into my (freeradius) users file, I can ...
Last month, I described the new wireless LAN security protocol, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). I showed how it adds strong and flexible authentication, plus dynamic encryption-key negotiation, to the ...
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) servers are common in enterprise networks to offer centralized authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) for access control. But RADIUS ...
Businesses can use a good stout RADIUS server to authenticate any network client. Dial-up, DSL, virtual private networks (VPN), wireless networks – you name it, RADIUS will authenticate it. If you’re ...
In the previous two Paranoid Penguin columns, I described how Wi-Fi protected access (WPA) can protect wireless LANs (WLANs) from unauthorized access and eavesdropping. I also began explaining how to ...