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PROPOSED STANDARD

Updates:

RFC 3748

Updated by:

RFC 8940

Authors:

B. Aboba
D. Simon
P. Eronen

Stream:

IETF

Source:

eap (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5247

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Abstract

The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), defined in RFC 3748,enables extensible network access authentication. This documentspecifies the EAP key hierarchy and provides a framework for thetransport and usage of keying material and parameters generated byEAP authentication algorithms, known as "methods". It also providesa detailed system-level security analysis, describing the conditionsunder which the key management guidelines described in RFC 4962 canbe satisfied. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.