Why Standards Are Important

SC Magazine has a good overview of the standards and organizations involved with Wi-Fi security.
Of course, standards are meaningless if developers don't bother to follow them. Microsoft co-developed the standard for PEAP, and later had to publish a second document that basically said, "gee, we know we said to do PEAP this way, but here's how we actually do it. Our bad!"
Now they are at work on a third version of PEAP, apparently because having two versions of PEAP is not enough. Meanwhile, Cisco — which co-developed PEAP in the first place — goes off on its own and develops EAP-FAST. I vote that we all agree to use TTLS and call it a day.
By Chris on February 11, 2005 10:47 AM |