RFC 4334 on Certificate Extensions and Attributes Supporting Authentication in Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN)

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        RFC 4334

        Title:      Certificate Extensions and Attributes Supporting 
                    Authentication in Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) and 
                    Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) 
        Author:     R. Housley,  T. Moore
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       February 2006
        Mailbox:    housley@vigilsec.com, 
                    timmoore@microsoft.com
        Pages:      11
        Characters: 20739
        Obsoletes:  RFC3770
        See-Also:   

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-pkix-rfc3770bis-03.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4334.txt

This document defines two Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
extended key usage values and a public key certificate extension to
carry Wireless LAN (WLAN) System Service identifiers (SSIDs).  This
document obsoletes RFC 3770.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
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