INTERNET - DRAFT EAP Key Management

By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." Abstract The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), defined in [RFC3748], enables extensible network access authentication. This document provides a framework for the transport and usage of keying material generated by EAP authentication algorithms, known as "methods". It also specifies the EAP key hierarchy.