Survey Results are in.

[Alan DeKok]

  It's been a few weeks since the survey was started.  Thanks to
everyone who entered their data.  The results are still coming in at
about 25 per day, so I expect that these numbers will change over
time.  So far, we have a bit over 500 responses, which makes the data
very useful.

  I won't get into a detailed explanation of the results, but I will
hilight the numbers.  I'll see if I can put some graphs on
freeradius.org in a few days, too.  We have the most interesting
result first:

==> Total number of users who are authenticated via FreeRADIUS: 100,000,000

  That's impressive.  The top 30 sites alone have over 75 million
  users who are using RADIUS for authentication.  With those numbers,
  it looks like 10% or more of people on the net are authenticated via
  FreeRADIUS.  If we assume that a number of large sites haven't
  entered their data on the survey, then the percentage is probably
  much higher, like 25%.

  FreeRADIUS looks like it's the server of choice for the Internet.
  Maybe we'll make that the new slogan...

==> Total number of RADIUS servers

  Many sites (70%) only have 1-2, with 95% of sites having 10 or fewer
servers.  About 1% has 50-100 servers, though, which is impressive.

==> Databases

  MySQL is the clear winner at 30%.  Next comes the "users" file at
  10%, OpenLDAP at 17%, and Active Directory at 14%.

==> Password hashes

  40% of passwords are stored as cleartext, 25% as Crypt, 20% as MD5,
  and 13% as NT hash.

==> Authentication Protocols

  PAP and CHAP are paired at about 20%.  But PEAP, EAP-TLS, and TTLS
  are each about 10%, too.

==> Configuration updates

  75% of sites change their configuration monthly to never.  That
  statistic goes a long way to explaining why so few people need
  official support. :)

==> Other RADIUS servers

  ACS and IAS are tied at about 25% each.  Cistron and OpenRADIUS are
  at about 10%, and Funk & Radiator are just under 10%.

  It looks like FreeRADIUS isn't in the top 5 of RADIUS servers, it's
  in the top 3, and maybe is even number one!

  And a large number of people have *never* used a server other than
  FreeRADIUS.  I'm glad to see it's well received.

==> Why FreeRADIUS?

  Open source, cost, and feature set all came in at about 20% each.

==> What do you need most from FreeRADIUS?

  Something called "documentation" beat out the next nearest response
  by nearly 2:1.  We'll see if we can work on that.


  Anyways, thanks for all of the response.  We'll use the information
to target development for future releases.

  Alan DeKok.