radius question

Robert Boyle robert at tellurian.com
Fri Jan 21 23:25:00 UTC 2005


At 06:14 PM 1/21/2005, you wrote:
>are authentication packets between routers and radius
>servers encrypted or clear-text?

All clear text, but passwords are sent as an MD5 hash which is the result 
of a shared secret on both the radius server and the router.

-Robert


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