This short primer will provide a few guidelines to consider when choosing an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) method, one element of the authentication component of your Wi-Fi security plan.

The confusion started last month when the Wi-Fi Alliance changed the WPA and WPA2 standards from supporting a single EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) standard to five EAP standards.

WPA/WPA2 WiFi networks use Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) over LAN (EAPoL) to communicate with clients. It’s a network port authentication protocol which was developed to give a ...

Updated 6/2/05: If the confusion over the recent addition of four EAP authentication protocols to the WPA2 standard wasn’t already high enough, Gartner’s recent attempt to bring clarity to the ...

Over the last couple of years, the protocol has been largely dependent on TLS, paired with EAP, the Extensible Authentication Protocol, for security.

WPA2-Enterprise supports multiple authentication schemes, with the most common being the PEAP (Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol), which combines the Microsoft Challenge-Handshake ...