Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-12-02 Thread Hanset, Philippe C
Many places have problems with OSCP... they don't let users that join the portal check for the OCSP validity (forget to allow for this in firewall) of the portal's certificate. That will make some OSes that don't automatically switch to CRL fail. Or worse, certificate providers change the IP

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-12-02 Thread Dale W. Carder
On our captive portal we just run a cron job once a day to pull the latest OCSP IP addresses to be whitelisted, and never have had a problem with SSL. Dale Thus spake Hanset, Philippe C (phan...@utk.edu) on Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 06:58:24PM +: Many places have problems with OSCP... they

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-29 Thread Arran Cudbard-Bell
On 19 Nov 2013, at 21:00, Ken LeCompte lecom...@oit.rutgers.edu wrote: One major consideration is that the use of https for more and more webpages is resulting in more confused users not getting redirected to captive portal login pages. A workaround for some devices would be to to add a

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-20 Thread Fleming, Tony
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal List seems to sum it up pretty well. I think user wise dot1x is better ... once setup. So while it may be more of a pain to configure for some users, once configured the experience is much better as they walk

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-20 Thread Turner, Ryan H
, 2013 9:22 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal I can tell you we use dot1x here with AD credentials and it doesn't lend itself to a good end-user experience. Our security policy requires password expiration after 60 days. When a student's

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-20 Thread Ian McDonald
: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal I can tell you we use dot1x here with AD credentials and it doesn't lend itself to a good end-user experience. Our security policy requires password expiration after 60 days. When a student's password expires we see an increase of wireless related complaints

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-20 Thread Coehoorn, Joel
Sent: 20-11-2013, 14:22 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal I can tell you we use dot1x here with AD credentials and it doesn't lend itself to a good end-user experience. Our security policy requires password expiration after 60 days. When

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-20 Thread Curtis K. Larsen (UIT-Network)
@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] on behalf of Coehoorn, Joel [jcoeho...@york.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:24 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal rantWhat I really want to provide is an HTTPS-like experience for my users that just works: an SSL layer

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-20 Thread Curtis, Bruce
supplicant issue though? You can send back a reason for authfailure, and then the client could prompt for a replacement password. -- ian -Original Message- From: Fleming, Tony Sent: 20-11-2013, 14:22 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-20 Thread Turner, Ryan H
: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal rantWhat I really want to provide is an HTTPS-like experience for my users that just works: an SSL layer that doesn't care who you are, but still provides meaningful encryption for the last 50 meters where your traffic is moving through the air for anyone

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-20 Thread Curtis, Bruce
] on behalf of Coehoorn, Joel [jcoeho...@york.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:24 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal rantWhat I really want to provide is an HTTPS-like experience for my users that just works: an SSL layer

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-20 Thread Turner, Ryan H
-Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Curtis, Bruce Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:05 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal On Nov

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-20 Thread Turner, Ryan H
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal My problem with these approaches is their proprietary nature. I wonder how this has been addressed/discussed in the IEEE groups... Ryan H Turner Senior Network Engineer The University of North Carolina at Chapel

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-20 Thread Mike King
Of Turner, Ryan H Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:16 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal My problem with these approaches is their proprietary nature. I wonder how this has been addressed/discussed in the IEEE groups... Ryan H Turner

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-20 Thread Mike King
: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Turner, Ryan H Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:16 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal My problem with these approaches

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-19 Thread Ken LeCompte
One major consideration is that the use of https for more and more webpages is resulting in more confused users not getting redirected to captive portal login pages. There is also the more obvious issue that client data is not encrypted over the air, although you could argue that more and more

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-19 Thread Peter P Morrissey
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal One major consideration is that the use of https for more and more webpages is resulting in more confused users not getting redirected to captive portal login pages. There is also the more obvious issue that client data is not encrypted over the air

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-19 Thread Jeff Kell
On 11/19/2013 4:05 PM, Peter P Morrissey wrote: Can anyone name an application that does not have strong encryption? I'm not arguing against 802.1x, because it works very well for us as users don't have to authenticate constantly on a portal, and we seem to do a very good job getting them

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-19 Thread Turner, Ryan H
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal One major consideration is that the use of https for more and more webpages is resulting in more confused users not getting redirected to captive portal login pages. There is also the more obvious issue that client data is not encrypted over the air

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-19 Thread Julian Y Koh
On Nov 19, 2013, at 15:05 , Peter P Morrissey ppmor...@syr.edu wrote: Can anyone name an application that does not have strong encryption? Does not have strong encryption != Strong encryption is in use by default DNS springs to mind. Heck, just leave tcpdump running when you wake a

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-19 Thread Curtis, Bruce
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken LeCompte Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 4:00 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal One major consideration is that the use of https for more and more webpages is resulting

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-19 Thread Hanset, Philippe C
from the top of my head... ###What's bad for the user: -Captive portal: no encryption over the air, pesky re-authentication and timeouts, no authentication of the infrastructure (yes, when you accept that SSL Cert from RADIUS you actually authenticate the infrastructure) -802.1X: finicky

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-19 Thread John Kaftan
We use 802.1x to do machine auth on equipment that we own and that is in the domain. We use Group Policy to push all of the settings. We have auth type set to 'user or computer' once the user logs on it flips to user auth. Its really cool because NAC will give the computer a 'Computer' policy

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-11-19 Thread Jason Cook
: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Hanset, Philippe C Sent: Wednesday, 20 November 2013 9:56 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal from the top of my head... ###What's bad