23 Feb
2022
23 Feb
'22
4:20 p.m.
On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 09:40:59 +0100 Hans Schultz wrote:
You still haven't answer my question. Is the data plane clear text in the deployment you describe?
Sorry, I didn't understand your question in the first instance. So as 802.1X is only about authentication/authorization, the port when opened for a host is like any other switch port and thus communication is in the clear.
Alright, thanks for clarifying!
I have not looked much into macsec (but know ipsec), and that is a crypto (key) based connection mechanism, but that is a totally different ballgame, and I think it would for most practical cases require hardware encryption.