Re: Certificate-based client side authentication towards a website with freeradius

2009-07-10 Thread Jay Xiong
Martin, You are correct that you need modified TLS library, EAP module and GUI for configuration EAP parameters integrated with each client. It is quite feasible with Firefox. The modified library, EAP module (library) can be made as patch to Firefox and Microsoft IE is another story. Thanks, J

Re: Certificate-based client side authentication towards a website with freeradius

2009-07-09 Thread Martin Schneider
Helllo Jay > The Internet Draft address what you described in web client/Apache > server and mail client and mail server applications. The TLS-EAp > extension is leveraging existing user credential and profile in AAA > server. In addition, you have flexibility to choose different > authentication

Re: Certificate-based client side authentication towards a website with freeradius

2009-07-08 Thread Jay Xiong
Martin, The Internet Draft address what you described in web client/Apache server and mail client and mail server applications. The TLS-EAp extension is leveraging existing user credential and profile in AAA server. In addition, you have flexibility to choose different authentication method using

Re: Certificate-based client side authentication towards a website with freeradius

2009-07-02 Thread Martin Schneider
Hello Jay > If you want to leverage the existing user profiles in the RADIUS > server for authentication, authorization, this Internet Draft TLS-EAP > Extension http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nir-tls-eap-06 might be > what you are looking for. Unfortunately, there is no implementation up > to da

Re: Certificate-based client side authentication towards a website with freeradius

2009-07-01 Thread Jay Xiong
Martin, If you want to leverage the existing user profiles in the RADIUS server for authentication, authorization, this Internet Draft TLS-EAP Extension http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nir-tls-eap-06 might be what you are looking for. Unfortunately, there is no implementation up to date as far as

Re: Certificate-based client side authentication towards a website with freeradius

2009-07-01 Thread Alan DeKok
Martin Schneider wrote: > We need also authorization. So we want to > > 1.) check if the certificate is signed by a "trusted ca" That is done by the normal certificate validation process. > 2.) check if the username x in the certificate is "known" What does that mean? If the CA signed the c

Re: Certificate-based client side authentication towards a website with freeradius

2009-07-01 Thread Martin Schneider
I think I need to clarify my question a little: >> we're trying to setup a freeradius / apache installation that allows >> us to authenticate and authorize users with *certificates* towards a >> website. We want to have *multiple* services, not only just one service. If we would only have one ser

Re: Certificate-based client side authentication towards a website with freeradius

2009-07-01 Thread Martin Schneider
Hi Ivan > Why use radius to check certificates when Apache can do it? > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_howto.html Thanks for this reply. We need also authorization. So we want to 1.) check if the certificate is signed by a "trusted ca" 2.) check if the username x in the certificate

Re: Certificate-based client side authentication towards a website with freeradius

2009-07-01 Thread Ivan Kalik
> we're trying to setup a freeradius / apache installation that allows > us to authenticate and authorize users with *certificates* towards a > website. > > Is there a good tutorial out there somewhere? We did only finde > partial information that seems to be quite old unfortunately. Or could > som

Certificate-based client side authentication towards a website with freeradius

2009-07-01 Thread Martin Schneider
Hello all, we're trying to setup a freeradius / apache installation that allows us to authenticate and authorize users with *certificates* towards a website. Is there a good tutorial out there somewhere? We did only finde partial information that seems to be quite old unfortunately. Or could some