[77507] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: radius question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Boyle)
Fri Jan 21 18:25:34 2005
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:25:00 -0500
To: snort bsd <snortbsd@yahoo.com.au>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050121231456.67908.qmail@web42002.mail.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 06:14 PM 1/21/2005, you wrote:
>are authentication packets between routers and radius
>servers encrypted or clear-text?
All clear text, but passwords are sent as an MD5 hash which is the result
of a shared secret on both the radius server and the router.
-Robert
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