Re: How to enable only EAP-TTLS type and not EAP-TLS?

[Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com>]

Reimer Karlsen-Masur, DFN-CERT wrote:
> Whereas IMO the SSL cert of the RADIUS server should be issued by a CA which
> has its root CA certificate preinstalled in the standard certificate stores...

  No.  You are saying that the supplicant should trust those root CA's
for ALL authentication.

  i.e. you have a certificate for "example.com", signed by Verisign.
The supplicant is configured to trust the verisign-signed certificates,
because that's what you have.

  Now *anyone* who is issued a certificate from verisign can
authenticate your users.  If your users are using EAP-TTLS with PAP
authentication, you've just convinced them to send their clear-text
password to some random person on the Internet.

  RADIUS certificates for EAP should ALMOST ALWAYS be self-signed.  That
means that no one else can successfully convince the users to send them
the passwords.

  Alan DeKok.