Xtremist, In order for that to work, an individual host's password must be sent in the clear, which offers no protection, or encrypted using a seperate algorithm which adds unnecessary overhead to the process. To keep the net secure, the key exchange must be secure. Ciphering with a public key is one way (using the public key), secret keys need never be disclosed. The protocol that you mentioned fails completely if there is a man-in-the-middle, listening to the wire.
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