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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:14:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Solution (RE: VPN client with mpd)
Message-ID:  <200109251814.f8PIEVJ77448@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200109251809.f8PI9Rl19337@vashon.polstra.com>
References:  <PCELJJEJJMODEMKEBLLBIEDHCAAA.larse@isi.edu> <200109251809.f8PI9Rl19337@vashon.polstra.com>

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<<On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:09:27 -0700 (PDT), John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> said:

> The trouble with this is that your password will be sent unencrypted
> across the Internet, very possibly hitting a sniffer or two along the
> way.  It's better to insist on chap and fix the broken peers.

Actually, no: the other side, which considers itself a server, doesn't
want to authenticate *itself* in any way to clients (since Windows
clients have no way to accept server authentication).  It's perfectly
happy to have clients authenticate themselves.

-GAWollman


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