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{{Short description|Authentication protocol for the point-to-point protocol}}
'''Extensible Authentication Protocol''' ('''EAP''') is an authentication framework frequently used in network and internet connections. It is defined in <nowiki>RFC 3748</nowiki>, which made <nowiki>RFC 2284</nowiki> obsolete, and is updated by <nowiki>RFC 5247</nowiki>.
EAP is an authentication framework for providing the transport and usage of material and parameters generated by EAP methods. There are many methods defined by RFCs, and a number of vendor-specific methods and new proposals exist. EAP is not a wire protocol; instead it only defines the information from the interface and the formats. Each protocol that uses EAP defines a way to encapsulate by the user EAP messages within that protocol's messages.
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