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Date:      Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:13:17 +0100
From:      Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Subject:   Re: MD5 usage in the kernel.
Message-ID:  <20000420211317.A10157@lindt.urgle.com>
In-Reply-To: <14591.25172.361989.676550@trooper.velocet.net>; from dgilbert@velocet.ca on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 04:02:28PM -0400
References:  <14591.25172.361989.676550@trooper.velocet.net>

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On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 04:02:28PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
> I'm working on an l2tp netgraph node.  I need md5.  Specifically, the
> RFC says:
> 
>       The Response is a 16 octet value reflecting the CHAP-style
>       [RFC1994] response to the challenge.
> 
> I've had a look at md5.c, but there is no documentation on the usage
> md5.  In this specific case, how do I call it?
> 
> If CHAP uses MD5, how does ng_ppp or kernel ppp handle this (or does
> it)?

<guess> hands all the LCP of to userland </guess>

Is a similar approach approprate here?  Is the MD5ing time critical,
or does it only appear in the moral equivilent of LCP?

-- 
Mike Bristow, seebitwopie  


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