Authentication issues with Win7 and WPA/WPA2 Enterprise

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Wed May 18 18:00:39 CEST 2011


On 18/05/11 16:50, Gary Gatten wrote:
> I can't comment on your problem right now, but be aware there seem to
> be MANY issues with Windows 7.  Our config works PERFECT with XP,
> Apple IOS, and other "basic" stuff.  When we started testing Windows
> 7 (WPA2 Enterprise) we ran into all kinds of weirdness.  And just
> when we think we have a working config and have a few users start
> testing it breaks.
>
> The web is littered with people having problems with Windows 7.  I'm
> convinced the W7 Supplicant is really broken.  In our environment FR
> doesn't even see the PEAP, just an MSCHAP, and that even fails!

We have no problems with Windows 7. It works just fine. There don't seem 
to be significant differences between it and Windows XP SP3 from our 
point of view.

>
> Anyway...  Maybe if someone knows of a tool to dehash/decrypt the
> MSCHAP stuff I could actually see what's different in the requests
> between a working auth and a rejected auth.  Right now we're grasping
> at straws and can't figure out why MS is essentially doing nothing
> about this...

Can you be more specific about what kind of "script" you want? I've got 
a bunch of python tools I use for testing here.



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