[3346] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet access and telco usage patterns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barney Wolff)
Mon Jul 8 19:23:11 1996
From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 19:17 EDT
> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 13:30:28 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
>
> On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Barry James wrote:
>
> > So, the only "secrets" that are shared are the md5 digest keys used
> > between the RADIUS server and TS.
>
> Not quite. The user must "share" their password with the first RADIUS
> client in order for it to be encrypted via MD5 in the first place. There
> is a hole here. But there is a solution as well.
Not true with CHAP. Nothing knows the user's secret but the user
and the eventual auth server.
Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
