RE: share 802.1x experience?

2010-08-19 Thread Bryn Jones
Hi Kay I don't know whether you are aware of 'eduroam' (http://www.eduroamus.org/eduroam_international_map), which is a shared authentication infrastructure in Higher Education? We used the introduction of the 'eduroam' SSID onto campus here in Leeds as a method of introducing 802.1x onto our

RE: share 802.1x experience?

2010-08-19 Thread Kay Sandacz
Hey Bryn, We're planning on deploying eduroam three days after the 802.1x rollout. Nonetheless, we have communications to prepare for the 802.1x rollout, so I'm looking for end user experience, things that could have been done better, things that worked in that scenario right now. And yes, we

RE: share 802.1x experience?

2010-08-19 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
The early adopters will remember that insecure protocols were widely used and in some cases still are (excuse me for not listing them). So you need an encrypted transport while the packets are in the air. 802.1x provides the foundation for this if correctly implemented using WPA2 AES (note recen