Meetinghouse Data Communicates offers 802.1x authentication for Mac OS X: Meetinghouse extended its Aegis software to include OS X, noting in its press release that this allows educational institutions and enterprises to now piggyback OS X boxes onto existing authentication systems. AEGIS provides an enhanced tunneling authentication solution, EAP-TTLS. EAP-TTLS simplifies network management by eliminating the burden of client certificates, and by leveraging existing standard user-name and password infrastructure. ... Aegis Client/Server Solution repairs the weaknesses in the 802.1X protocol allowing dynamic WEP key exchange while supporting legacy, non-EAP, authentication methods such as PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP, and MS-CHAP V2 through the authentication tunnel. ...Aegis Client? is priced at
$49.99 per user. Volume discounts may be available. You can download a beta. [80211b News]
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