In the last ten years, new EAP materials have emerged that exhibit large displacement in response to electrical stimulation enabling great potential for the field. To develop efficient and robust EAP material for practical applications efforts are underway to understand the behavior of EAP materials and improved characterization techniques. Further, to enhance the actuation force the basic prin...

The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) describes a framework that allows the use of multiple authentication mechanisms. This document defines an authentication mechanism for EAP called EAP-EKE, based on the Encrypted Key Exchange (EKE) protocol. This method provides mutual authentication through the use of a short, easy to remember password. Compared with other common authentication metho...

The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), defined in RFC 3748, enables extensible network access authentication. This document specifies the EAP key hierarchy and provides a framework for the transport and usage of keying material and parameters generated by EAP authentication algorithms, known as "methods". It also provides a detailed system-level security analysis, describing the conditio...

Acknowledgement I wish to express my sincere gratitude to Professor Michel Barbeau, my supervisor, for his encouragement and guidance during the course of this project. Thank you for always being there and helping me whenever I needed. ii Abstract Security is always a major concern for wireless LAN development. This type of development is suffering today from different security problems due to ...

EAP plays a highly important role in countries where English is used mainly for academic purposes. However, EAP programs have been developed without conducting a systematic needs analysis from both the students’ and instructors’ perspective. The purpose of this study is to describe the perception that EAP students and instructors have of the problematic areas in EAP programs. A total of 693 EAP...

This specification defines a new EAP method, EAP-AKA’, which is a small revision of the EAP-AKA (Extensible Authentication Protocol Method for 3rd Generation Authentication and Key Agreement) method. The change is a new key derivation function that binds the keys derived within the method to the name of the access network. The new key derivation mechanism has been defined in the 3rd Generation ...

This document defines Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) support for the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), an authentication framework which supports multiple authentication mechanisms. In the proposed scheme, the Network Access Server (NAS) forwards EAP packets to and from the RADIUS server, encapsulated within EAP-Message attributes. This has the advantage of allowing...

This specification defines a new EAP method, EAP-AKA’, a small revision of the EAP-AKA method. The change is a new key derivation function that binds the keys derived within the method to the name of the access network. The new key derivation mechanism has been defined in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). This specification allows its use in EAP in an interoperable manner. In addit...

This specification defines a new EAP method, EAP-AKA’, a small revision of the EAP-AKA method. The change is a new key derivation function that binds the keys derived within the method to the name of the access network. The new key derivation mechanism has been defined in 3GPP. This specification allows its use in EAP in an interoperable manner. In addition, EAP-AKA’ employs SHA-256 instead of ...

This specification defines a new EAP method, EAP-AKA’, a small revision of the EAP-AKA method. The change is a new key derivation function that binds the name of the access network to the keys derived within the method. The new key derivation mechanism has been defined in 3GPP. This specification allows its use in EAP in an interoperable manner. In addition, EAP-AKA’ employs a new hash function...