Editing Authentication protocol (section)

====[[Extensible Authentication Protocol|EAP - Extensible Authentication Protocol]]====

EAP was originally developed for PPP(Point-to-Point Protocol) but today is widely used in [[IEEE 802.3]], [[IEEE 802.11]](WiFi) or [[IEEE 802.16]] as a part of [[IEEE 802.1x]] authentication framework. The latest version is standardized in RFC 5247. The advantage of EAP is that it is only a general authentication framework for client-server authentication - the specific way of authentication is defined in its many versions called EAP-methods. More than 40 EAP-methods exist, the most common are:
*[[EAP-MD5]]
*[[EAP-TLS]]
*[[EAP-TTLS]]
*[[EAP-FAST]]
*EAP-[[Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol|PEAP]]