RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol that provides centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) management for users who connect and use a network service. RADIUS was developed by Livingston Enterprises in 1991 as an access server authentication and accounting protocol. It was later brought into IEEE 802 and IETF standards.

RADIUS is a client/server protocol that runs in the application layer, and can use either TCP or UDP. Network access servers, which control access to a network, usually contain a RADIUS client component that communicates with the RADIUS server.[1] RADIUS is often the back-end of choice for 802.1X authentication.[2] A RADIUS server is usually a background process running on UNIX or Microsoft Windows.[1]

The Blast-RADIUS attack breaks RADIUS when it is run on an unencrypted transport protocol like UDP.[3]

  1. ^ a b "How Does RADIUS Work?". Cisco. 2006-01-19. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
  2. ^ Edwin Lyle Brown (2006). 802.1X Port-Based Authentication. Taylor & Francis. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-4200-4465-2.
  3. ^ "Blast-RADIUS". July 9, 2024. Retrieved July 10, 2024.

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