The May 2007 TechNet Cable Guy article in TechNet magazine, "EAPHost in Windows," describes the new EAPHost architecture in Windows Vista and Windows Server Longhorn that allows easier extensibility for new Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) supplicants and EAP authentication methods.
EAP is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard (RFC 3478) that provides an infrastructure for network access clients and authentication servers to host plug-in modules for current and future authentication methods. Microsoft Windows uses EAP to authenticate Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)-based connections (such as dial-up, virtual private network remote access, and site-to-site connections) and for IEEE 802.1X-based network access to authenticating Ethernet switches and wireless access points (APs).
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