RFC 5998

"An Extension for EAP-Only Authentication in IKEv2", September 2010

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5998.txt
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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Updates:

RFC 5996

Authors:

P. Eronen
H. Tschofenig
Y. Sheffer

Stream:

IETF

Source:

ipsecme (sec)

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Abstract

IKEv2 specifies that Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) authentication must be used together with responder authentication based on public key signatures. This is necessary with old EAP methods that provide only unilateral authentication using, e.g., one- time passwords or token cards. This document specifies how EAP methods that provide mutual authentication and key agreement can be used to provide extensible responder authentication for IKEv2 based on methods other than public key signatures. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.