Re: public secret and public radius server. Is it secure?

2006-06-15 Thread Stefan Winter
Hi, this is again an example where a RadSec extension would come in extremely handy. Short wrapup: RadSec establishes connections via TCP and TLS and transports the RADIUS payload over it, so clients can be identified by their TLS certificate; IPs and shred secrets become obsolete.

Re: public secret and public radius server. Is it secure?

2006-06-06 Thread Stefan Winter
Hi, In my project, I don't own the hotspots, and don't know about the hotspots ISPs. The hotspots communicate to the radius server though the internet. I would suggest using another method to get a secure connection to the hotspot. Maybe IPSec. this is again an example where a RadSec

Re: public secret and public radius server. Is it secure?

2006-06-06 Thread sophana
Stefan Winter wrote: Hi, In my project, I don't own the hotspots, and don't know about the hotspots ISPs. The hotspots communicate to the radius server though the internet. I would suggest using another method to get a secure connection to the hotspot.

Re: public secret and public radius server. Is it secure?

2006-06-06 Thread Alan DeKok
Stefan Winter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is again an example where a RadSec extension would come in extremely handy. Short wrapup: RadSec establishes connections via TCP and TLS and transports the RADIUS payload over it, so clients can be identified by their TLS certificate; IPs and

RE: public secret and public radius server. Is it secure?

2006-06-05 Thread Santiago Balaguer GarcĂ­a
If you don't want Dynamic address use VPN between your RADIUS server an your hotspots. My question is : - What can a malicious user can do with the secret? Can it alter accounting and other things? (chillispot uses chap auth-type) one is spell it out and try rumble it so he forms a new word

Re: public secret and public radius server. Is it secure?

2006-06-05 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, I don't want to do that, because it is too complex to setup. My users setup their hotspot by themself (at least at the beginning) Setting up a vpn is too complicated. I just want the setup as simple as possible. you are planning to roll out captive portals, with RADIUS authentication,

Re: public secret and public radius server. Is it secure?

2006-06-04 Thread sophana
Alan DeKok wrote: sophana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my project, I don't own the hotspots, and don't know about the hotspots ISPs. The hotspots communicate to the radius server though the internet. I would suggest using another method to get a secure connection to the hotspot.

Re: public secret and public radius server. Is it secure?

2006-06-04 Thread Alan DeKok
sophana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both the Access Request and Accounting Request MUST have the NAS-IP-Address http://www.freeradius.org/rfc/rfc2865.html#NAS-IP-Address attribute or a NAS-Identifier http://www.freeradius.org/rfc/rfc2865.html#NAS-Identifier attribute (or both). Does

RE: public secret and public radius server. Is it secure?

2006-06-02 Thread vertito
My question is : - What can a malicious user can do with the secret? Can it alter accounting and other things? (chillispot uses chap auth-type) one is spell it out and try rumble it so he forms a new word from it - Is there a way of maintaining a per hotspot secret with dynamic ip addresses?

Re: public secret and public radius server. Is it secure?

2006-06-02 Thread sophana
vertito wrote: My question is : - What can a malicious user can do with the secret? Can it alter accounting and other things? (chillispot uses chap auth-type) one is spell it out and try rumble it so he forms a new word from it Is it a real security problem? I will be using accounting for

Re: public secret and public radius server. Is it secure?

2006-06-02 Thread Alan DeKok
sophana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw in the freeradius source that the NAS are identified from the ip address, and the secret is determined from it. That's how RADIUS works. My problem is that there can be hotspots on dynamic ip addresses. The solution I found actually is to have an

Re: public secret and public radius server. Is it secure?

2006-06-02 Thread sophana
Alan DeKok wrote: My problem is that there can be hotspots on dynamic ip addresses. The solution I found actually is to have an unique secret shared with all hotspots. So the secret is known by everybody. Or, make the hotspots NOT have dynamic IP's. There's no reason why