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From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: Solution (RE: VPN client with mpd)
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In article <200109251814.f8PIEVJ77448@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>,
Garrett Wollman  <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> <<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.

Oh.  I haven't actually sniffed it, so I'll assume you're right.  I
apologize for the misinformation.

John
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  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
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