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  • EAP TTLS-PAP
  • PEAP
  • EAP TLS
  • EAP FAST-pwd

Further to these generic instructions, we have an ongoing community effort to document known-working devices on the following page: Compatible Devices.

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eduroam networks are provided by participating institutions locally in and is their own responsibility. As a roaming consortium, eduroam defines minimal compliance rules on how hotspot deployments need to look act like; you can think of this as a "franchise" system.

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  • Use is free of charge.
  • The wireless network is encrypted with WPA2/AES.
  • Your username and password is exclusively validated with IEEE 802.1X as described above.
  • The network gives you access to the general internet.

In Europe, a minimum number of services ("ports") must be made available at the hotspot. The list includes sending and receiving email (encrpytedly and unencryptedly), browsing web pages (encrpytedly and unencryptedly), and access to a wide variety of Virtual Private Networking (VPN) solutions which can connect you back to your home institution in privacy. The full list of ports is available in section 6.3.3 "Specifications and Operational Requirements: Service Providers" (p.31+) of the European eduroam Service Definition.

Apart from that, you should consider every eduroam network as a "normal ISP" network. In particular, the WPA2/AES encryption only protects your traffic while it is in the air; as soon as it travels onwards onto the internet, your traffic is not encrypted any more unless you chose to use encrypted transfer protocols (e.g. browse with https:// instead of http:// ; or if you started a VPN connection).

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