-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 04:40:09PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > 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. CHAP autentication send the "password" encrypted over the wire. The problem is how it is stored on the ISP server. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE2k/TpdyWzQ5b5ckRAq9FAKCnzW8L67clVUcIrWxTrvTh8D4GgwCdHxaK WmjnMxfweitzspfYdtft7OQ= =6/wv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----