User's Manual

● PAP: Password Authentication Protocol is a two way handshake
protocol designed for use with PPP. Authentication Protocol
Password Authentication Protocol is a plain text password used on
older SLIP systems. It is not secure.
● CHAP: Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol is a three
way handshake protocol which is considered more secure than
PAP (Password Authentication Protocol).
● MS-CHAP (MD4): Uses a Microsoft version of RSA Message
Digest 4 challenge and reply protocol. This only works on
Microsoft systems and enables data encryption. This
authentication method causes all data to be encrypted.
PEAP
PEAP is a new Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) IEEE 802.1x
authentication type designed to take advantage of server-side EAP-
Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS) and to support various
authentication methods, including users' passwords and one-time
passwords, and Generic Token Cards.
Cisco Features
Cisco LEAP
Cisco LEAP (Cisco Light EAP) is a server and client 802.1x
authentication through a user-supplied logon password. When a
wireless access point communicates with a Cisco LEAP-enabled RADIUS
(Cisco Secure Access Control Server [ACS]), Cisco LEAP provides
access control through mutual authentication between client wireless
adapters and the wireless networks and provides dynamic, individual
user encryption keys to help protect the privacy of transmitted data.
Cisco Rogue Access Point Security Feature
The Cisco Rogue Access Point feature provides security protection from
an introduction of a rogue access point that could mimic a legitimate
access point on a network in order to extract information about user