Hi, > You must have missed the information in RFC 2865 (RADIUS), which is also > a Fine Manual. The PAP password is XOR'd with the MD5 hash of the > shared secret and the authenticator.
Yes, that's a bit clearer than saying "the password is hashed", since it also shows that the process is reversible and you can easily obtain the cleartext password from the "obfuscated" password. > You've been reading about the protocol prior to the RADIUS client's > involvment. The same thing applies to CHAP, just to head you off. No, not quite. Here, the password is (essentially) used as a key to compute the hash value of a challenge. Most notably, this means you (or the server) have no way whatsoever to get back to the clear text password from what is transmitted to the server. Regards, Stefan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html