Microsoft and Wireless Authentication

An anonymous reader writes: "Microsoft's been working on a new, secure authentication standard for 802.11b called PEAP. [ed. note: it's a draft standard] Cisco already offers secure authentication for their own wireless gear with LEAP, and did an outstanding job of making this capability available for Linux and OS/X, as well as for Windows. My question is, since PEAP is dependent upon the Windows EAP-TLS infrastructure, are Linux and OS/X going to be left out in the cold as this new standard is pushed by MS? Sifry's has some good commentary and links. Opensource wireless hackers, are you working on this?"

Comments

OS/X?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is that like a newer version of OS/2?

Microsoft secure authentication standard

[gelfling]

"one of these things is not like the other, three of these things are kind of the same"

everybody sing !!!!

seriously - there ought to be a literary term for a sentence like that, oh wait there is, it's called

"Irony"

Re:RTFA - Better title would have been - New Stand

[GigsVT]

Hey if MS can do something to secure the MS networks I have to support, and it contributes to the community. Take their money, develop it, and we all benefit from it. I might get a weekend off.

Hey, maybe if we appease the Nazis just a little more, they will back off. Collaboration with MS should not be tolerated on any level. This includes Miguel and his fetish for .NET, and any sort of "standard" MS has their grubby fingers in.