Questions about source code

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Tue Sep 23 14:27:46 CEST 2008


Hao Wang wrote:
> I am sorry for using wrong terms. I started the job several days ago and
> learn many terms from Wikipedia.

  I'm sorry, but this list isn't the place to learn about RADIUS, SSL,
EAP, or 802.1X.

> Let me rephrase my problem.
> You mentioned that the Freeradius Server use OpenSSL for encryption. The
> OpenSSL implements many encryption methods including AES which is a
> symmetric key cryptography. So there must be a key shared by both the
> server and the supplicant for AES to work. I would like to know where in
> the source code (which variable in which file) it is. I was not able to
> locate it.

  This is defined in the SSL specifications.  But I don't suggest
reading them.  They're complicated.

  Alan DeKok.



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