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Re: PPP suddenly not working.

Curt Sampson (cjs@portal.ca)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 12:00:42 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Toomas Losin wrote:

> There is a form of CHAP that uses an encrypted password rather than
> the plaintext. I know that newer versions of pppd support it.

There can't be. The way CHAP authenticates is dependent on having
the cleartext at both ends.

(Using CHAP, as I recall, the server encrypts a random number with
the password, sends it to the client, and expects a decrypted
response back.)

cjs

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