Authentication password used by client

[Christoph Schmidt]

Thanks a lot !!!

On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 10:10 +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> huh? PAP is plain text authentication - sure. but RADIUS uses shared
> secrets between the NAS and the server - and the password is one
> of the entities that will get a little bit of help witht his.
> 
> read a basic RADIUS book or the set of RFCs and it will tell you this.
> 
> however, this is not strong encryption...and methods that use challenge
> response (eg MSCHAP) are recommended if you have worries about passwords
> whizzing across the network.
> 
> alan