1 Introduction

The Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP) is an extension to the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) [RFC3748].

EAP is an authentication framework that supports multiple authentication methods. PEAP adds security services to those EAP methods that EAP provides.

Sections 1.5, 1.8, 1.9, 2, and 3 of this specification are normative. All other sections and examples in this specification are informative.