libeap.txt

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\mainpage EAP Software Architecture and API
\author Yoshihiro Ohba
\date Created: August 11, 2003
\date Updated: January 10, 2004

\section Introduction

The libeap library provides a C++ API to EAP (Extensible
Authentication Protocol).  The library implements a set of state
machines of EAP (ExtensibleAuthentication Protocol), which is
specified in draft-ietf-eap-statemachine-01.{txt,ps}.  This document
describes the software architecture of the EAP API implementation.

\section tagBasicFeatures Basic Features

The API has the following features.

- <b>Peer and Authenticator implementation</b> The libeap library
provides both EAP peer and authenticator state machines
implementation.  Authenticator implementation includes standalone
authenticator, backend authenticator and pass-through authenticator
state machines.

- <b>Thread safety and load balancing</b>.  The libeap library is
written based on the Open Diameter Framework API, which makes the
library thread-safe and it is also possible to do load balancing among
multiple threads to achieve a maximal performance.

- <b>Open-ended API</b>.  The EAP API is extensible in a way that
applications can define new authentication methods including method
state machines and message parsing.

- <b>OS independence</b>.  The library is developed by fully utilizing
the <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/%7Eschmidt/ACE.html"> ACE
(Adaptive Communication Environment) API </A> so that it can work
major operating systems including Linux, UNIX and Windows for which
ACE is supported.

\section tagSample Sample Program

\include md5_test.cxx

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