Hello Sek Chye -
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Goh Sek Chye wrote:
> Hi! Currently we encrypt our subscribers' password. This means that we
> cannot support CHAP authentication.
>
> However, I am now under pressure to support CHAP as well. To support
> CHAP, I need to store subscribers' password in clear text and I am not
> comfortable with that.
>
> Is there any solution to support CHAP and at the same time store the
> password encrypted?
>
Unfortunately no, as with CHAP only the encryption is sent for the password,
and you need to be able to perform the same encryption at the server end to be
able to compare the two encrypted passwords.
regards
Hugh
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