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Re: Security problem in PPPoE connection

  • From: Florian Weimer
  • Date: Sun Mar 12 15:02:51 2006 
* Steven M. Bellovin:

> CHAP can be bidirectional.

I stand corrected.

However, the value of this type of authentication is rather
questionable if the underlying communication channel is so horribly
insecure.