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PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 2716

Updated by:

RFC 8996,RFC 9190

Authors:

D. Simon
B. Aboba
R. Hurst

Stream:

IETF

Source:

emu (sec)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5216

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Abstract

The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), defined in RFC 3748,provides support for multiple authentication methods. TransportLayer Security (TLS) provides for mutual authentication,integrity-protected ciphersuite negotiation, and key exchange betweentwo endpoints. This document defines EAP-TLS, which includes support forcertificate-based mutual authentication and key derivation.

This document obsoletes RFC 2716. A summary of the changes betweenthis document and RFC 2716 is available in Appendix A. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.