Re: (PM) Radius Secret

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 14:09:08 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Thomas C Kinnen wrote:

:That will not work. The secret is never sent on the wire. It's used on
:both ends to do the MD5 hash but not sent on the wire.

So you say a hash is done on both ends and compared? Hrm, did it not used to
work this way. I remember some gripe a few years back about clear text
passwords and pms'.

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