Secure Storage and Transport of User Credentials

Marco Macala marco.macala at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 14:37:35 CEST 2012


The problem is, that I do not trust the network and I don't want to store
the password in plain.

Also, isn't the NT Hash insecure beacuse it is easily cracked? Or am i
mixing things up?

2012/7/11 alan buxey <A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk>

> Hi,
>
> >    is there a way to securely transport and store the Username/Password
> with
> >    freeradius?
> >    If I am informed correctly, you can use PEAP to ensure that the data
> is
> >    encrypted but the most supported PEAP mode is with MSCHAPv2 which
> implies
> >    that the passwords are stored in clear text or NT-Hash.
>
> ....PEAP will securely transport things - as with MSCHAPv2 the password is
> never sent.
>
>
> whether the passwords are stored in plain/nt-has format is down to how you
> are doing things..
> if they are stored in AD then they are not stored in a plain format.
>
> alan
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