On Nov 10, 2003, at 10:21 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Saturday 08 November 2003 05:16 pm, Hseu-Ping Chen wrote:I suppose smart-card based logon/authentication would cure this problem, by using x509 certificate for SSL mutual auth according to the protocol specified in EAP/SSL. I remember read about this from a brochure by MartSoft.
Best
That would work will with Simputers, which have a SmartCard reader/writer built in.
USB devices exist that take a SIM-format SmartCard, they're about the size of your ordinary bluetooth USB device.
The "WPA issue" is that no real keying is taking place. Any standard 802.1x/EAP method would be superior.
Some of you may remember where you probably first-heard the whole "smart cards as authentication tokens for Wi-Fi. :-) hint: http://192.207.126.3/m-id.html
Too bad about Musenki...
Jim
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