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It might be time to introduce a protocol that allows networks to display authentication prompts without needing to MITM HTTP connections. It's not even hard, a
by devit 6y ago
It might be time to introduce a protocol that allows networks to display authentication prompts without needing to MITM HTTP connections.
It's not even hard, all that's needed is to add an "authentication URL" field to DHCP and IPv6 router advertisements.
- MayeulC 6y agoIsn't it part of what "Hotspot 2.0" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotspot_%28Wi-Fi%29#Hotspot_2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotspot_%28Wi-Fi%29#Hotspot_2....) provides? It certainly solves the login part, it might also solve the register part?
- tialaramex 6y agohttps://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8910 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8910 Captive-Portal Identification in DHCP and Router Advertisements (RAs) Actually the future is ambient network access. But on the way there, the likely pathway is larger and larger federated network authentication. Most of the world's higher education students/ staff are enrolled into EduROAM, so that it doesn't matter if they're in a classroom in Tokyo or London, the federated system concludes they are a legitimate user somewhere and so they can connect here. In these federated systems there's no use for a "Captive portal" since it could not safely achieve federated authentication, so there isn't one.