Tag: Radius
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How Retiring One System Retired Another
The Wireless Gateway’s End Also Killed CheckPoint’s Cleartext Login One component retired. It killed an entire system on its way out. I only built one of them. Before wifi, Baylor’s residential network ran authentication through CheckPoint using a cleartext, telnet-emulated login. I’d already shipped client software for both Windows and Mac System 7 that talked…
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When the Spec Is the Only Source of Truth
This post began as a LinkedIn reflection on RFC reading and first-principles thinking. The story went deeper into RFC 2865 RADIUS authentication than a LinkedIn post could hold. RFC 2865 RADIUS Authentication The authentication failures were intermittent. Not every packet. Not every user. Just enough to know something was wrong at the byte level. I…