radius user-password on the wire

[Alan DeKok]

Riccardo Veraldi wrote:
> I used wireshark to sniff communication between my radisu server and
> the user-password attribute is encrypted 

  Yes... go read the RFC's.  This is what's supposed to happen.  We're
already aware of it.

> to test if this is strong enough I wanted to ask if there is a way to
> decrypt
> this user-password attribute since my radisu server is doign proxy to
> other radius server.

  Huh?  If you have a shared secret with the NAS, the proxy will
automatically decrypt it.  There's nothing more that you need to do.

> my question is  how much is risky to have user-passsword attribute
> travellign across
> the network ? is the encryption applyed to the user-password strong
> enough ?

  It's good enough for most people.

  Alan DeKok.