When a technology that is compliant to the 802.1x standard is implemented, what are the three main components that are involved?
A.
Access point, authenticator, authentication server
B.
Supplicant, authenticator, RADIUS server
C.
Supplicant, RADIUS server, authentication server
D.
Supplicant, authenticator, authentication server
Explanation:
The 802.1X technology actually provides an authentication framework
and a method of dynamically distributing encryption keys. The three main entities in
this framework are the supplicant (wireless device), the authenticator (access
point), and the authentication server (usually a RADIUS server).