All, fyi. for some reason the original did not post to the list. Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC * * -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: New N810 - worst purchase I've made this year. Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:08:29 -0400 From: John Holmblad <jholmblad at acadiasecurenets.com> Organization: Acadia Secure Networks, LLC To: Chris Van <covand at gmail.com> CC: maemo-users at maemo.org References: <de4dd5be0803261103g1de75350ub8a057020f4451ee at mail.gmail.com> Chris, well look at it from this perspective. You have ~9 months more to beat your record! Having said that, I don't have any insights for you on 1) or 2) except that LEAP^1 . has a security weakness (no cryptographic salt^2 for the hash of the password thus making the ciphertext of the password more vulnerable to a dictionary attack). MSCHAP-V2, which is distinct from LEAP, does not suffer from this weakness because it uses a different mechanism ((random) challenge-response) for authentication that is much more secure than LEAP. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Extensible_Authentication_Protocol 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28cryptography%29 Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC * * Chris Van wrote: > > Question - what is the official stance on > > 1) GPS not working since the latest upgrade to OS2008 > > and > > 2) LEAP on MSCHAP2 wifi not working (I mean, the device is advertised > as being able to use wifi) > > I just bought it about a week ago, and GPS worked great - until I > updated from Nokia. I shouldn't really have to say it, but being told > that the device can get on wifi and then finding that it can't use > LEAP - which most offices I've ever visited use - is kind of a bait > and switch. Plus, my $19 gps device I bought at wal-mart two years ago > is able to connect, but the N810 is not. > > I'm just wondering what Nokia/Maemo has to say about these issues, > because I'm looking at returning the device if these features aren't > being fixed by Nokia/Maemo soon. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >
