Certificate renewal with WPA2-Enterprise PEAP MS-CHAPv2

Question

Hello
We have a wireless network which is secured with WPA2-Enterprise with PEAP and MS-CHAPv2. The Radius servers (Windows Server 2008r2 with the Radius Feature installed) currently use a public signed certificate. This is about to expire soon and will need to be renewed.
The clients are non-managed and from all variety (OS, wifi-software, ...).
The Wifi is 4400 controller based and managed with the new Prime Infrastructure 1.3.
What is the best way to do the renewal with as little disturbance for the client as possible? The less manual interaction for the end user the better.
Thanks
Patrick                 

Answer 1

Hello Patrick,
As per your query i can suggest you the following steps-
Since the root CA is the most critical CA in the hierarchy, you may prefer to have a strategy here that reduces the need to renew the root certificate often.
The first consideration is choosing the key length of the root's public key and private key pair during setup of the root authority. By using a long key length, which is generally more secure against brute force attack than a shorter key length, you increase the length of time that the CA can use the same private key and have reasonable confidence that it has not been compromised. The second consideration is establishing the validity period of the root certificate itself. In general, you will want to create a root certificate that has a shorter validity period than the estimated lifetime of the key.
For more information you can refer to the link-
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc740209(v=ws.10).aspx
Hope this will help you.