On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:21:26AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> RADIUS uses UDP for data transport. Only password is encrypted.

>From what I know, the password is only lightly "encrypted", XORed with
the MD5 hash of the RADIUS secret!  So if you have a reasonable guess of
what a password might be, or if you know even only one password, the
entire scheme falls apart if it is possible for you to sniff the data
stream.

Of course, if the network segment the RADIUS server is located in is
trusted, RADIUS should be good enough.

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