Matthew Gast interviews two of the principals of the open-source 802.1X project called Open1X: Matthew is involved in testing 802.1X systems (supplicants and servers); he's the author of O'Reilly's 802.11 Wireless Networks. He interviews Chris Hessing and Terry Simons about their use of 802.1X at the University of Utah--fascinating in itself--and their broader goals of bringing more interoperability and sophistication to 802.1X implementations. Open1X was started because they needed a client that worked across many platforms; now some platforms have limited 802.1X clients built in, but the need for a robust open-source supplicant is still quite high.