Fco. Javier Melero wrote:
> I've got an  LDAP attribute mapped into user-password RADIUS attribute.
> This attribute is RSA-ciphered

  And why would you do that?  It's completely useless.

> so RADIUS have to deciphered it when it
> arrives in order to use it for authentication. The problem arise when I
> try to use an RSA key pretty much longer than 1400 bytes, because the
> resulting value exceed the 253 bytes RADIUS specification length limit.
> My questions are:
> 
> Is this size limit mandatory even when this RADIUS attribute is never
> put on the wire?

  In the current implementation of the server, yes.

> If so, could anybody point a way which allow me to use longer RSA keys?

  Run a separate program to connect to LDAP, obtain the password, and
decrypt it.

  Alan DeKok.
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