What is the process if  X user (EduRoam) has a lot of malware and is sharing it 
on your network.  But home institution is 2000 miles away…

Black list MAC and call it a day?  Notify eduroam?  Home institution?  
Geiger-Counter person and tell them?

My guest account requires active phone number for user to get on the network.

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Hunter Fuller
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 10:54 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS

Our campus isn't comfortable with an open ESSID without verifying the identity 
of the user, so that's the value of eduroam - identity.

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 10:47 Jeffrey D. Sessler 
<j...@scrippscollege.edu<mailto:j...@scrippscollege.edu>> wrote:

Couple of comments:



  *   eduroam – using your point of “…most users can access what they want 
off-campus…”, what long-term value is there to eduroam? IMHO – not at lot. Back 
in the day, this would facilitate quick access for a visiting educator who may 
be collaborating with someone locally and needing access to local resources. 
Today, in age of cloud-based collaboration platforms and access from anywhere, 
how important is eduroam over an open wifi network? With few exceptions, all 
the visitor needs is Internet access. eduroam doesn’t add value here, but does 
add complexity to manage.
  *   Location data – Yeah, this can have some value, but at least here, our 
emergency management moved to mobile-based applications that allow the user to 
opt-in to being tracked with the addition of panic-button-like services. I tend 
to shy away from using location-based services within WiFi where life-safety is 
involved. It can be a wonderful tool, until it doesn’t work that one-time 
management believes it should. In other words, finding a missing AV cart is 
different than a missing person.

Jeff



On 8/14/17, 7:23 PM, "The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
on behalf of Jason Cook" 
<WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> 
on behalf of jason.c...@adelaide.edu.au<mailto:jason.c...@adelaide.edu.au>> 
wrote:



    This is a good topic, we are slowly moving towards a preferred EAP-TLS from 
PEAP-MChapv2 but not current date to force and perhaps never. The points made 
about why do we bother at all though are pretty relevant, most users can access 
what they want off-campus from whatever network they want, and VPN for more 
restricted access. So a properly segmented internal network providing 
appropriate access would be fine. *PSK/ open networks are theoretically ok.



    At this point we are still confident that dot1x based auth is still the 
best way to go for users accessing our wifi, though this discussion has 
certainly opened my eyes a lot.





    There's a couple of other reasons though why dot1x (which ever method) does 
have advantages to us. This may not be relevant to all, and there maybe 
better/other ways.



    eduroam will break down via other methods, so you'll still need to manage a 
dot1x service no matter what. Then you have still have calls to SD because the 
service is now different when you want to use it, requires special setup that's 
different to on-campus.We've had Cloudpath a while, originally for PEAP config 
and now TLS. We do roll with a main SSID so our onboarding will configure our 
network  UofA and eduroam and users will just work wherever they go once done.



    Occasionally for security reasons we use location data to track missing 
people. This is possible without auth to network data but it's better having 
that auth data. Same goes for identifying users acting inappropriately online. 
User ID to IP mapping is also fed into our firewall for web filtering 
exceptions (including group and personal)



    Originally we went with Cloudpath to help users get configured easier which 
worked well (though this is less of requirement with auto-configs now pretty 
good), as well as properly since auto-config on OS's doesn't get the 
certificate right (so it ensure proper config). Configuring eduroam at the same 
time for windows was problematic however with PEAP (can't remember other OS's). 
As it would only save 1 SSID User info properly, so the second SSID it wouldn't 
save user ID and users would get prompted and not add the 
@adelaide.edu.au<http://adelaide.edu.au> .. TLS resolves that little windows 
issue.



    So for us one additional positive the EAP-TLS over PEAP but overall 
user-auth has its value.







    --

    Jason Cook

    Technology Services

    The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005

    Ph    : +61 8 8313 4800



    -----Original Message-----

    From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>]
 On Behalf Of Lee H Badman

    Sent: Tuesday, 15 August 2017 2:59 AM

    To: 
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>

    Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS



    One interesting trade-off: if I have good AD credentials and pop up a new 
Mac or Windows machine without any kind of onboarding in play, I will get on 
the network quickly one way or the other with PEAP/MS-CHAPv2. . Maybe I'm 
prompted to accept the server, but I'll get on. This is good and bad. I got on, 
but not the way that the Security and Network folks might have wanted me to get 
on- because the cert stuff is optional with PEAP/MS-CHAPv2 on non-AD machines 
that you don't control. That's arguably bad.



    But... I got on. And I got authentication and encryption, without IT 
intervention. From the user perspective, this is good. I didn't have to 
onboard, I didn't need IT help. I wasn't stranded if I didn't understand what 
the onboarding SSID is all about, etc.



    With TLS- you get properly onboarded, or you're sucking wind until you do. 
But once you do, TLS' advantages kick in as described in this thread. But that 
"easy on" thing is gone... no matter how simple you make TLS onboarding, it 
still requires end users to comprehend it. So, to me, part of going to TLS is 
with the understanding that occasionally someone will be stranded by their own 
lack of understanding the process, that somebody may be someone important 
and/or vocal, the stranding will occur at the worst time of day and in the 
worst circumstance in accordance with Murphey's Law, and there will be some 
increase in related  trouble calls.



    None of this negates TLS' value, but at the same time you have to go into 
it with your eyes open to the perspective of the BYOD crowd on campus versus 
what they are currently accustomed to.



    One man's o-pinion.



    -Lee



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    -----Original Message-----

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 On Behalf Of Curtis K. Larsen

    Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 1:11 PM

    To: 
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    Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS



    Excellent Point.  We did some testing with LDAP group lookups, etc. vs. 
checking for an attribute in a user certificate for authorization and found the 
performance to be significantly better for the same number of authentications 
when *not* having to wait for LDAP.  Another benefit is not having to worry 
about users that have trouble typing passwords/getting their account locked out 
for failed attempts.





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    Curtis K. Larsen

    Senior Network Engineer

    University of Utah IT/CIS





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on behalf of Curtis, Bruce <bruce.cur...@ndsu.edu<mailto:bruce.cur...@ndsu.edu>>

    Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 10:56 AM

    To: 
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    Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS



    > On Aug 11, 2017, at 7:45 AM, Bucklaew, Jerry 
<j...@buffalo.edu<mailto:j...@buffalo.edu>> wrote:

    >

    > To ALL:

    >

    >

    >

    >

    >

    >    I am going to amend my initial request to "does anyone have any other 
reasons to switch to eap-tls besides the ones I list below"? I am trying to 
build a case for switching and want to gather all the benefits.



      One other benefit that I haven't seen mentioned in the thread yet is that 
EAP-TLS removes dependency on Active Directory or other identity box.

      So an outage or slowdown of Active Directory (or other external box) does 
not affect RADIUS and wireless logins.





    > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

    > 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>]
 On Behalf Of Bucklaew,

    > Jerry

    > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 3:36 PM

    > To: 
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>

    > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS

    >

    >

    >

    > Lee,

    >

    >

    >

    >    I want to state first that I am not, by any means, an expert on all of 
the authentication standards and protocols.  I was hoping someone would have a 
document that would help better articulate the goals and benefits.

    >

    >

    >

    > We have been a eap-peap shop for years and I have always been told that 
eap-tls (cert based authentication) is more secure and you should do that.  I 
never had the time to deal with it and putting up a cert based infrastructure 
just seemed daunting.   I finally have some time and have started to play with 
it.  We are an Aruba shop and the clearpass Onboard system seems pretty simple 
to implement and get EAP-TLS working.

    >

    >

    >

    > Now to the why.   It seems that the ability to separate username/password 
from network authentication has some benefits.   If a user changes his 
username/password it no longer affects his network connectivity.  If we want to 
blacklist a device it will be easy as each device will have its own cert. So we 
can blacklist one device and let the rest still on.  We could do those things 
today but it is just a little harder to do with eap-peap.   We can also get 
users out of storing their usernames and passwords, because everyone does it 
with eap-peap. The thought process went, if you are going to run an on-board 
process anyway, why not onboard with eap-tls.  On the wireless side that is 
really all I have.  I have always been told it is more secure so have always 
thought I should try and get there.

    >

    >

    >

    > Now, we are also moving to wired authentication on every port.   We are 
supporting both mac auth and 802.1x (eap-peap).  We did this to get the project 
moving and get all ports to some type of authentication.  Now 802.1x on the 
wired side is just plain difficult.  Nothing except macs are setup for it out 
of the box.   You need admin rights on the machine to set it up (which many 
people on the wired side don't have) and you almost have to run through some 
type of onboard process to do it in mass.   You have to deal with stuff like 
network logons and mounting drives before authentication. We also don't want 
the users storing usernames and password and everyone will because no one wants 
to type it in every time.   I am back to the if you are going to run through an 
onboard process anyway, will certs make it a little easier.   It gives you the 
username/password separation.   The ability to revoke per device, and once 
onboarded, never have to be bothered again (until the cert expires).

    >

    >

    >

    > I am not really concerned about peap being deprecated, it will be around 
forever.   I am not really concerned about usernames and passwords being stolen 
because of eap-peap, there are so many easier ways to do that.  It guess it is 
really the username/password separation and the "thought" that it is the most 
secure method.

    >

    >

    >

    > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

    > 
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    > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 3:00 PM

    > To: 
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    > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS

    >

    >

    >

    > Jerry,

    >

    > Am curious your reasons for TLS, like if anything beyond "it's better". 
Concern for PEAP being deprecated, etc?

    >

    > Lee

    >

    > -----Original Message-----

    > From: Bucklaew, Jerry [j...@buffalo.edu<mailto:j...@buffalo.edu>]

    > Received: Thursday, 10 Aug 2017, 14:42

    > To: 
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>

    > 
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    > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS

    >

    > To ALL:

    >

    >

    >

    >

    >

    >   We currently do mac auth and EAP-PEAP authentication on our wireless 
network.  I am trying to put together a proposal to move to cert based 
authentication and I was wondering if anyone has a proposal or justification 
already written as to why you should move to cert based auth?  Just trying to 
save myself some typing.

    >

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