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History of RFC 2716
Goal: support for certificate-based mutual authentication within EAP over PPP
-00 draft submitted to PPPEXT WG in October 1997
http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-ietf-pppext-eaptls-00.txt
Experimental RFC published in October 1999
Why Experimental?
No previous EAP method had supported mutual authentication or key derivation
Few existing certificate or smartcard deployments



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