Differences between protocols – Hand Held Products 7900 Series User Manual

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TTLS and PEAP bypassed the certificate issue by tunneling TLS, and thus eliminating the need for a certificate on the client side.
PEAP supports only EAP-compliant authentication protocols within the tunnel structure, and is rapidly becoming the most widely
supported of the EAP methods. TTLS supports pre-EAP authentication protocols within the tunnel structure, and should be used
in those circumstances when pre-EAP interior protocols are desirable.

LEAP is a pre-EAP, Cisco-proprietary protocol, with many of the features of EAP protocols. Cisco controls the ability of other
vendors to implement this protocol, so it should be selected for use only when limited vendor choice for client, access-point, and
server products is not a concern.

Differences Between Protocols

Security Feature

MD5
Challenge

TLS

TTLS

PEAP

LEAP

Client -side certificate required?

No

Yes

No

No

No

Server-side certificate required?

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Dynamic WEP Re-keying

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Mutual or One-way Authentication?

One-way

Mutual

Mutual

Mutual

Mutual

Support of non-EAP protocols within
a secure tunnel?

N/A

N/A

Yes

No

N/A

Relative Deployment Complexity

Simple

Difficult

Moderate

Moderate

Moderate

Relative Security

Poorest

Highest

High

High

High

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