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Title : RADIUS Client Kickstart
Author(s) : R. Moskowitz
Filename : draft-moskowitz-radius-client-kickstart-01.txt
Pages : 14
Date : 2003-10-27
RADIUS servers [2] require foreknowledge of the IP address of the
RADIUS clients, as the shared secret is bound to the address. This
has been a manageable situation when the RADIUS Clients were just
NASs (Network Access Servers). With the advent of IEEE 802.1x [3],
there is a significant increase in RADIUS clients in organizations
not prepared to have the RADIUS Clients use fixed IP addresses and
manage the shared secret. To address the concerns of the IEEE 802.1
and 802.11 Task Groups a level of indirection is added; a Master
secret bound to the name of the RADIUS client. This Master secret
is created by the Shared Secret Provisioning Protocol [4]. For
RADIUS Client Kickstart, SSPP is run over SNMP [5]. The Master
Secret is used in an initial RADIUS exchange to create a session
secret that is used as the normal RADIUS client shared secret. SSPP
can be used to change the Master Secret whenever required.
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