On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 17:00 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 03:19:23PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > the 3rd being: > > > > > > - - Challenge/Response > > > > HA! I remember this from before I got cable access. While futilely > > hoping the telco would get DSL out here in the sticks, I did dial to my > > ISP. Auth was either PAP or CHAP. IIRC, ISP preferred CHAP and that's > > what we did (PtoP). > > Having to stop the passwords on plaintext (on the ISP side) always makes > me raise an eyebrow toward any place that offers CHAP as authentication. > Then again, I always use different passwords everywhere, so that is not > usually a big issue. Same here, even in my own net (I have grandchildren: they can be "snoopy"). The darn trouble is trying to remember them all, including those for different 'net sites; all have a different password. The plain text password didn't bother me so much as my connection was a dial-up Point-to-Point connection. One would need some special acces to intercept. > - -- > Rodrigo Barbosa > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill
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